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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“Not sure what the emergency is that is driving this.”
It’s simple. They want your money.
Since so many people will not throw trash away, esp. in populous cities, and in which many people collect redeemable containers, then for am for the increase, if not a vast expansion of items. On the other hand, paying people per volume of such light trash might be better. Now if one for old TVs and monitors was viable...
I will still throw them out in the trash.
It’s the plastic bag cr** that gets me. I’m betting the net plastic in the dump remains the same or is greater....just makes it so we have to buy MORE rubbish...and they’re thicker and probably exceed the biodegradable rate of those flimsy store bags.
Agreed.
That's your choice, good for you!
Me and my buddies leave our bottles and cans next to the trash cans after drinking following our ball games. They're always gone by the next morning.........
At 10 cents per can and bottle, somebody is making money and nobody is complaining about it........
except the naysayers such as you. LOL!
Trying hard to decipher what you just posted. Maybe you could try again...........
I take my empties down to the local redemption center and just give it to them. I never take the money.
I tell them that they are providing a Service and I do not want the State getting this revenue, it is as are most taxes ‘thievery.’
Some prefer a quick trick with a stacked chick. Oh, that naughty Dr. Suess.
In CA, they apply sales tax after the deposit fee is added.
So, with effort, you can get back the deposit, but not the added sales tax (generally above 8%).
Because we need the price of everything to rise more in MA.
= = =
But Mayor Wu is going to lower the cost of living in Boston.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you've already paid the deposit fee on each and every bottle and can you are giving to the redemption center. Yes, you have already paid your "tax" on those items..
An now you are giving away your chance to recover that "tax" and bragging about it. Sheesh!
Yeah....those were such wonderful times.
You go back there...I'll pay deposits.
same in mass
Well, you've got me there.
" Trying hard to decipher what you just posted. Maybe you could try again........... "
Sorry for that admittedly hasty response of disconnect btwn thought and writing, though I usually have little problem discerning far worse jumbled thoughts.
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