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- Massachusetts_Bottle_Bill abstract "The Massachusetts Bottle Bill (Mass. Bills H.2943/S.1588) is a container-deposit legislation dealing with recycling in the United States that originally passed in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in 1982 as the Beverage Container Recovery Law. Implemented in 1983, the law requires cans and both plastic and glass bottles of soft-drinks and beer to be returnable with a minimum return value, currently $0.05. The current law also establishes the handling fee paid by distributors to redemption centers, $0.0325 per unit as of July 5, 2013 and to retailers $0.0225 per unit. As the number of non-deposit beverage containers (water, tea, sports beverages, etc.) has increased to represent over one-third of beverage containers sold, the current Bottle Bill has no influence on these non-deposit containers, with the result that these containers are three times more likely to be found as litter in Massachusetts communities. Additional studies[citation needed] indicate that beverage containers covered by the state’s container deposit system are redeemed at approximately 70% and another 9% are recycled via curbside programs. Conversely, containers that are not covered, such as bottled water, juices, and sports drinks, are recycled at approximately 25%[citation needed]Bills proposing updates for the state’s bottle bill have been underway for 12 years, beginning in 2001, but without success. In 2011, an update passed the Massachusetts State Senate as a provision to the so-called “Jobs Bill.” In 2013, an update passed the Massachusetts State Senate as part of the state budget. Neither time was the bottle bill update taken up, or passed by the Massachusetts House.As of September 13, 2013, efforts were underway to place this issue on a statewide ballot initiative. This would address growing concern over the nearly 1.4 billion containers not covered by existing legislation that are currently found in litter and landfill waste. The goal of the initiative petition is to broaden the scope of beverage types requiring a deposit in order to be more responsive to current consumer preferences as well as establishing a mechanism for stabilizing the recycling industry by tieing the handling fees paid to redemption centers to the Consumer Price Index.".
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- Massachusetts_Bottle_Bill subject Category:Government_of_Massachusetts.
- Massachusetts_Bottle_Bill subject Category:Recycling_in_the_United_States.
- Massachusetts_Bottle_Bill subject Category:Waste_legislation_in_the_United_States.
- Massachusetts_Bottle_Bill comment "The Massachusetts Bottle Bill (Mass. Bills H.2943/S.1588) is a container-deposit legislation dealing with recycling in the United States that originally passed in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in 1982 as the Beverage Container Recovery Law. Implemented in 1983, the law requires cans and both plastic and glass bottles of soft-drinks and beer to be returnable with a minimum return value, currently $0.05.".
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