Committee buries bottle bill in study, outraging supporters - Boston Globe

Supporters of expanding the bottle deposit law to cover more types of beverages were outraged by a committee vote Thursday morning that will probably torpedo the proposal until January, when the next legislative session begins...

A January 2011 poll by MassINC showed that 77 percent of respondents supported expanding the bottle bill. The support came from Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters. The bill’s strongest support was Boston and its inner suburbs, where respondents backed it at an 83 percent clip. Even respondents in the least popular region, Boston’s outer suburbs, backed the proposal at a 68 percent rate.