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Michigan's deposit is 10 cents per bottle/can. 97% of bottles and cans are recycled, even while Michigan's recycling rate of other materials is pretty low. Exa
by bloopernova 7y ago
Michigan's deposit is 10 cents per bottle/can. 97% of bottles and cans are recycled, even while Michigan's recycling rate of other materials is pretty low.
Exactly what you described is what happens: If the purchaser doesn't recycle the cans, someone else will. Charities and other people will ask for cans to recycle, and some people will comb through trashcans to get a couple of bucks of empties.
- Scoundreller 7y ago97% if you look at MI sales and MI returns, but how much of that is non-MI material being returned to MI? It sounds ridiculous, but there were even cases in Europe of « fake » bottles manufactured exclusively for getting a refund by the multi-million.