Sam Drysdale reports in The Berkshire Eagle that proposals in the Massachusetts legislature would increase the bottle deposit from five cents to 10 cents and add more types of beverage containers to the program, including containers for drinks that did not exist when the initial law was adopted in 1982. Voters in 2014 came out against a ballot question to add a five-cent bottle deposit onto drinks besides beer and soda. The low fee is one of the reasons the state has the lowest rate of people returning empty bottles and cans among the ten states with bottle redemption laws, according to a report from the Container Recycling Institute. Right now only about 38 percent of plastic bottles are returned to grocery stores or redemption centers in Massachusetts. "In Oregon, they raised their redemption -- their deposit value from five to 10 cents. Within three years, the redemption rate jumped by, I think it was 64 percent up to 86 percent. And today, they're at almost 89 percent," said Mike Noel, public affairs director at recycling company TOMRA. "The system has been neglected in Massachusetts for 40 years." Read more about this story in The Berkshire Eagle.