Mass. redemptions drop in 2001. (Municipal Recycling).Redemptions under Massachusetts's deposit bill have fallen to the lowest level since its inception in 1990. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Boston Boston, town, England Boston, town (1991 pop. 26,495), E central England, on the Witham River. Boston's fame as a port dates from the 13th cent., when it was a Hanseatic port trading wool and wine. Having recovered from a decline in the 18th and 19th cent. Globe, while figures indicate that consumers purchased a record number of soft drink and beer containers, redemptions dropped to 67 percent, a decline of nearly 20 percentage points from the 1995 peak. Gina McCarthy, assistant secretary for environmental affairs, told the paper that the 67 percent recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. rate is still much higher than that of non-deposit states and of non-deposit containers within the state. Critics, however, say that the declining rate indicates that the bottle bill is losing favor with consumers. Chris Flynn, president of the Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. Food Association, told the Boston Globe that he favors eliminating the bill. "It's really an indirect tax," he said.
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