Environmental and consumer advocates are making another push to pass legislation that would update Massachusetts’ decades-old beverage- container deposit law.
After canvassing door-to-door across the state this summer, staffers with MassPIRG this week delivered to the State House more than 6,000 signatures they collected in support of what has become known as the “better bottle bill.”
The legislation would increase the deposit from the current five cents to 10 cents and add more types of beverage containers to the program including plastic water bottles, vitamin drinks, and other products that did not exist when the initial law was enacted in the 1980s.
Despite collecting thousands of signatures, supporters do not plan to try to put a question on the next state ballot.
WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Janet Domenitz, Executive Director of MassPIRG.
