The Midwest Independent Retailers Association believes there should be a push to promote more curbside recycling and they ...

State Sen. Ryan Fazio recalled a famous episode of "Seinfeld," where a scheme emerged to bring New York cans to Michigan.

ALBANY, N.Y. – State lawmakers are pushing to expand the laws that give you money back for returning bottles and cans. The new legislation would also let you start returning bottles for liquids like ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The value of a dime doesn’t stretch as far as it did in 1976 when the state’s bottle deposit law was initiated, but for many Michiganders, returning beverage containers to ...

For the third year in a row, Michigan's bottle return rate is the lowest since at least 1990. For 2024, only 70.4% of bottles sold in the state were returned for the 10-cent deposit. Since about 2007, ...

Michigan’s dime deposit program is almost 50 years old and is always in the news because of efforts to expand or repeal it. But, do you know what happens to that plastic and aluminum when you take it ...