Next year, Bay State voters may face a ballot question that would expand the 30-year-old bottle law to include juice, flavored water and other non-carbonated beverages. Under the current law, a 5-cent deposit is added to the cost of a carbonated beverage container, which can be recycled, and the nickel redeemed. In last week’s Flash Poll, which drew the highest vote total since we launched the feature in April (427), opponents won in a landslide.
