Posted on 02/18/2022 9:21:09 AM PST by massmike
The "better bottle bill," filed by Rep. Marjorie Decker and Sen. Cindy Creem, would increase the bottle deposit from its current five cents to 10 cents and add more types of beverage containers to the program, putting a deposit on water bottles, vitamin drinks, nips and bottles for other drinks that weren't contemplated when the initial law was adopted in the early 1980s.
Both House and Senate versions of the bill were referred to the Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee. The panel endorsed Creem's bill last month and advanced it to the Senate Ways and Means Committee, while it is pursuing an extension order allowing it until May 2 to vote on Decker's.
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I don’t know about Massachusetts, but in New York State, any money left over from bottle deposits that is not claimed goes to the state. There are always more deposits paid then redeemed. Just saying.
Who are they kidding? This is just a tax when there’s no practical way to redeem the bottles for the deposit money.
Prior to Michigan enacting the bottle and can deposits, the highways were littered with beer and pop cans. They disappeared once the deposits went into effect.
Where I play softball in the mornings, there are water bottles everywhere even tho there are garbage cans within 10 feet of each dugout. Pigs don't care, they just throw their trash on the ground and we end up picking them up and putting them in the trash cans.
Then what are they currently doing with the existing deposit fees?
Plus, CCW is mandatory. If you don't have a handgun you can get a loaner from any LEO. Return upon leaving the state.
i give all mine to the animal shelter... easier than messing wi them and goes to a good cause
Me too...it's the way to go on polluting.
Guaranteed that Howie Carr will be talking about this at 3:05 today.
Doubling down on a stupid law.
In these (rural CT) parts, there are plenty of bottles and cans (almost always liquor or beer) scattered on the roadside despite a deposit.
The drunks don’t care.
If I had a dime for every time someone tried to cash-in one of those New Hampshire cans.......
I was in the liquor biz when the bottle bill first was passed. What a headache it was with the old cans and bottles WITHOUT the deposit stamps still in circulation. Amazing how so many in the public will try to cheat you out of an extra nickel.
....and then later,the cans were all stamped with the Ma. five cent deposit stamp. And there was even a stamp on them from Michigan(MI) which had a TEN cent deposit. It was sad to see how many Massachusetts people didn’t know how to abbreviate their own state.
Has a better ring to it.
No, you could just stop supply bottled stuff and require it to be sold by the barrel. People would have to supply their own mugs or carry containers. It worked in Medieval times, it would work now.
Man, you should be a spokesperson for NH. Stop it! Before more libtards move to the state s/ (see FL and TX)
Because we need the price of everything to rise more in MA.
Talk about Reps having a tin ear.
In NH the property taxes are pretty much what I paid in income, sales, and property taxes in MA. No thanks.
I live in MA and I don’t really see a bunch of cans and bottles rattling around the streets and parks. We have people going through the recycling every week looking for bottles.
Not sure what the emergency is that is driving this.
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