Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan's 10-cent beverage bottle and can deposit program was once the envy of the recycling nation, boasting a return rate above ...

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, ...

The Wayne County Commission is hosting plastic bottle return events starting Monday, February 16.

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 ...

LANSING, Mich. — Updated data on Michigan's bottle return rate is showing a troubling trend for the state's bottle deposit program. For the third year in a row, Michigan's bottle return rate is the ...