Remember the Bottle Bill... is it time to expand it?

This subject has now been put on the front burner of the recycling crisis. Environmentalists and others are asking Beacon Hill to include other bottles now not covered by the bottle bill of years ago. They want to add wine and nips, bottle water and sports drinks. Some of you might remember back in 014 when there was a ballot question, to expand the bottle bill and you may also remember it being defeated, mainly over the bottling industry who spent 9 million in opposition advertising.
 I would vote in favor of expanding the bottle bill, including making the deposit a .10 fee.
Both sides have testified before the appropriate committees, but I don't have a sense where the bills will end up.
One point of the recycling crisis is the number of redeemable bottles that are not going back to the stores or redemption centers. The original bottle bill mandated bottle manufactures to kick in 3 cents for every bottle made, to the redemption centers and another 2 cents to package stores. The updated bottle bill would go from 5 cents to 10 cents.
We are just tossing redeemable bottles in the recycle bins and losing money from the State. If the bottles are not going back to be redeemed, the State keeps the money. For those of you who need proof that we are tossing our redeemable s in the recycle carts, just watch for the bottle lady with huge bags of redeemable bottles blocking the streets of Framingham as she heads toward the redemption facility in downtown.
An elected official or officials need to take charge of this recycling problem and take radical steps in finding solutions to this issue. Or before we tax payers know it, the cost of recycling will be 1 million dollars a year, perhaps even its own enterprise fund, like water and sewer bills that we get every quarter.