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Everything you never wanted to know about 'garbage'
Massachusetts is forced to endure a tyrannical Speaker of the House who ignores the will of the people, determines in his narrow-minded view what gets voted and genuflects to lobbyists and special interests, Massachusetts voters be damned!
From past experience, House Speaker DeLeo has confirmed that those who oppose him pay dearly, those who support him are generously rewarded with chairmenships and percs.
Such has been the fate of the Bottled-Up Bottle Bill because of the Speaker's archaic views.
It appears the Bottle Bill will be among those ballot initiatives because of the Speaker's intransigence.
This is about reducing MUNICIPAL WASTE DISPOSAL COSTS and removing litter from our streets.
2014 BALLOT QUESTIONS
Minimum wage increase, bottle bill expected. As the slate of candidates slowly comes into shape, the range of issues voters may be considering next November when those candidates are on the ballot will come into sharp focus over the next 10 days. To be in the mix for 2014, proponents of initiative petitions must submit proposed language and the signatures of 10 original petition signers by Aug. 7.
Supporters of a higher minimum wage and an earned sick time law announced plans this week to mount ballot campaigns and other activists frustrated with Beacon Hill are considering their options.
Proponents of an expanded bottle redemption law said last session they had majority support in both branches to pass their proposal. They got their bill through the Senate but never got a vote on it in the House. In his resistance to the proposal, Speaker Robert DeLeo labeled the bottle bill a tax but now that DeLeo has lifted his ban on higher taxes the hurdle for bottle bill supporters could be lower on the Hill. Still, given their experience last session, bottle law expansion activists have to be mulling the ballot, where proponents of auto repair information access and medical marijuana proposals were able to fairly easily sidestep the Legislature and enact laws in 2012
http://www.capecodtoday.com/article/2013/07/27/20743-2014-ballot-and-questions-bourne-5m-grant-new-taxes-begin-and-major-offshor
Additional articles:
The Updated Bottle Bill
Bottle Bill No Longer Bottled Up!
Reducing Solid Waste
Let's Rescue the Bottle Bill!
The Sky Will Fall!
Time to Pass the Bottle Bill!
Bottle Bill Uncorked
Beacon Hill has kept the Bottle Bill bottled up in committee because of vested interests
even though 77% of Massachusetts residents favor it.
Beacon Hill has kept the Bottle Bill bottled up in committee because of vested interests
even though 77% of Massachusetts residents favor it.
DeLeo, The Buffoon!
Every year across Massachusetts, more than 30,000 tons of non-carbonated
beverage bottles are buried in landfills, burned in waste-to-energy plants, or
tossed onto our streets, parks and beaches. That’s enough plastic bottles to
fill Fenway Park – from the press box to the Green Monster – five times.
Every year across Massachusetts, more than 30,000 tons of non-carbonated
beverage bottles are buried in landfills, burned in waste-to-energy plants, or
tossed onto our streets, parks and beaches. That’s enough plastic bottles to
fill Fenway Park – from the press box to the Green Monster – five times.
Beacon Hill: Why?
A few other
articles:
Getting
Trashed!
Talking
Trash Tuesday, Sept. 21
Talking
Trash
DEP:
Recycling/Reuse/Compost
PAYT
saves municipal dollars
The
program so far has saved the city upwards of $1 million in disposal fees, and
has increased recycling four-fold since the program was implemented,
PAYT
reduced per-household trash costs in Malden by $41.93, and saved the city about
$800,000 in disposal fees, based on figures from the first five months of the
program’s implementation.
A few other
articles:
Getting Trashed!
Talking Trash Tuesday, Sept. 21
Talking Trash
DEP: Recycling/Reuse/Compost
PAYT saves municipal dollars
The program so far has saved the city upwards of $1 million in disposal fees, and has increased recycling four-fold since the program was implemented,
PAYT reduced per-household trash costs in Malden by $41.93, and saved the city about $800,000 in disposal fees, based on figures from the first five months of the program’s implementation.
Getting Trashed!
Talking Trash Tuesday, Sept. 21
Talking Trash
DEP: Recycling/Reuse/Compost
PAYT saves municipal dollars
The program so far has saved the city upwards of $1 million in disposal fees, and has increased recycling four-fold since the program was implemented,
PAYT reduced per-household trash costs in Malden by $41.93, and saved the city about $800,000 in disposal fees, based on figures from the first five months of the program’s implementation.
The Bottle Bill - It's Time!
Because of inaction on Beacon Hill, communities have taken action on their own, to the frustration of those 'vested interests' .....
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