Michigander here. One of the very few states in the USA with a bottle deposit. 10 cents per can/bottle. It's actually prohibited to put a bottle or can in a lan

Michigander here. One of the very few states in the USA with a bottle deposit. 10 cents per can/bottle. It's actually prohibited to put a bottle or can in a landfill here. It's very common to see people digging through trash cans and such, collecting bottles and cans to return for deposit. We have two garbage cans in the garage at home, when they both fill up we will take them back to the store. It's a inconvenience to go to the grocery store, wait in line for 20 minutes, then feed all the returnables into the machine, wait for the store staff to empty the machine so you can finish, and then turn the ticket in for eight dollars. People in line become impatient and just give their bags of cans to anyone else in line who will take them. Then you get the odd bottles that aren't returnable at that store, because they don't sell that brand. Part of the deal is the automated machines are not very fast. In the old days, a clerk counted them by hand or you just gave them a full 12/24 pack case. There aren't many machines, either. Another problem is if you return them to a small convenience store, the staff won't give you money back, they insist on only store credit, not cash refund. Which I'm pretty sure is against the law. I have a recycle bin in my office, overflowing with empty aluminum cans of Monster, plastic bottles of Mt Dew, and glass kombucha bottles. I always tell the cleaning guy he can have them. There's a social stigma attached to carrying a bag of bottles through the office and out to my car. There might be 3 or 4 dollars worth in there, so who cares. Lots of charities have bottle drives, sometimes one of the parents will collect them for their school sports teams, and there's a dropoff for the local 4th of July fireworks show. Also, when COVID first started, we couldn't return bottles for over 6 months. This lead to some pretty impressive amounts of bottles being kept at peoples homes.