Doubling down on a stupid law.
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.