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Old 03-27-2019, 04:32 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by TiltonBB View Post
I don't think so. The deposit law passed in Massachusetts 37 years ago.

"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."
Growing up in 50s and 60s -long before the "bottle bill" it certainly was possible-and if you lived near a grocery store and package store you could return almost every type bottle and pocket the (what seemed at the time) the wealth!

In last decade seems that many of bottle return companies have closed making it tougher for Massdachusettsians to turn in recyclables; I have heard the company "take" was a penny a unit to handle, and it was too little
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