Mass. legislators consider updating bottle bill to cover water, sports drinks BOSTON, Mass. — Since 1982, every time a consumer buys a soda in Massachusetts, they pay a nickel deposit on the returnable container. Ditto for a beer. Products like water, sports drinks, and iced tea have not required deposits, however. A bill currently under consideration would change this system. Representative Marjorie Decker is the sponsor of H 3289, which would expand the bottle bill to cover a much wider range of products and double from the deposit. “The sports drinks, the water bottles, those weren’t things that we were purchasing in 1982,” Decker said. “In fact, we need to…