A coalition of environmental groups pushing for an expanded bottle bill in Massachusetts will abandon plans to accomplish its long-sought aim through a ballot initiative, and will instead focus its efforts on swaying the legislature to pass an update that has been languishing in committee since the summer. Advocates of expanding the commonwealth's three-decade-old bottle bill after 16 years of trying, were heartened last July when a legislative committee held a hearing on legislation that would change Massachusetts' container deposit system to include almost all non-carbonated beverages. However, after little movement on the legislation, the bottle bill boosters began laying the groundwork to take their case directly to the voters through a ballot measure.
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