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Anyone know why bottle return is 10c in MI

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Cut down on litter. They tried to increase it a couple of years ago and to expand it to bottles of water but it failed. michigan is really into preserving their natural resources, yet they have billboards everywhere.
 
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DaytonBuck;693524; said:
I think 10 cents is tacked onto everything bottle can/related you buy up there as an incentive to recycle
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Bingo. Michigan has a 10 cent per can/bottle deposit as an incentive to recycle. Returning a 12-pack gets you $1.20 back. It's an effective program that also eliminates the need/costs of a curbside recycling pickup.
 
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BuckBackHome;693778; said:
Cut down on litter. They tried to increase it a couple of years ago and to expand it to bottles of water but it failed. michigan is really into preserving their natural resources, yet they have billboards everywhere.
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Actually I heard yesterday that Michigan is not allowing any new billlboards this next year.
 
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Dryden;693839; said:
Bingo. Michigan has a 10 cent per can/bottle deposit as an incentive to recycle. Returning a 12-pack gets you $1.20 back. It's an effective program that also eliminates the need/costs of a curbside recycling pickup.
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The focus is really on cutting down the litter. When they tried to institute the deposit on bottles of water and sports drinks and also to increase the deposit to $.20 it was because there is more litter on the roads and in the parks. They still recycle up there, but the towns I lived in charged extra to recycle so it was never very popular.

I had not heard about billboards. That is a change as I yelled at some state legislators a few years ago when they tried to take all control from cities limiting the placement of billboards in their own towns.
 
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Actually I heard yesterday that Michigan is not allowing any new billlboards this next year.
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they better hope they don't piss off LSU then....there would be no retaliation.

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