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I don't so much mind recycling but I sure minded taking those sticky dirty bottles and cans back to the grocery stores in Michigan when I lived there. Nothing like taking all those germs right into the store where you are about to buy your food. Yuck - there's just something wrong about that.
can anyone return plastic bottles for refund in MI because I would love to start a bottle recycle bussiness in the state of nc but need to know where I can sale the bottles I feel this will help American stay clean and we really need this but if I would have trouble saling the bottles why would I stated collecting them
You never watched Seinfeld, did you?
It would be HIGHLY illegal for you to take returnable bottles from one state and then off them in MI for the 10c refund. You could try it, as I'm sure people have, but if you get caught, you'll get into big trouble. MUCH more trouble than it's worth.
It would be HIGHLY illegal for you to take returnable bottles from one state and then off them in MI for the 10c refund. You could try it, as I'm sure people have, but if you get caught, you'll get into big trouble. MUCH more trouble than it's worth.
They just had a big sting operation in Maine on this and nabbed a few people doing this very thing in ME/NH (the latter does not have a bottle redemption bill). It is a 10,000 dollar fine.
(But it does go to show you that our crime rate really is not that bad since the powers that be have little else to do but go after beer can swindlers).
I will add that Maine has the best redeption bill out there though. We only get 5C for the average can, BUT everything is listed, from small bottles of strawberry milk, to gallon sized juice bottles to beer cans. If you drink it from a bottle, its more than likely got a 5 cent deposit just to keep them out of our ditches.
They just had a big sting operation in Maine on this and nabbed a few people doing this very thing in ME/NH (the latter does not have a bottle redemption bill). It is a 10,000 dollar fine.
(But it does go to show you that our crime rate really is not that bad since the powers that be have little else to do but go after beer can swindlers).
I will add that Maine has the best redeption bill out there though. We only get 5C for the average can, BUT everything is listed, from small bottles of strawberry milk, to gallon sized juice bottles to beer cans. If you drink it from a bottle, its more than likely got a 5 cent deposit just to keep them out of our ditches.
Are you sure? I was just looking at a few bottles that I had (glass vinegar bottles, and a milk jug as well) thinking that if soda and booze bottles can have the deposit, everything should. But I didn't see that they were returnable...
Well, Gorry Be! I just looked again at my jug of Wyman's Blueberry juice and saw that it is returnable. Not that I drink big bottles of juice that much, but I'll be sure to throw them into the bottle box from now on. I bet I've lost out on all of $1 in the past year from throwing them in the plain old recycle bin! (And I will be looking at my other beverage containers, too.. for some reason I didn't realize that. What about milk jugs, though- do you know what the deal it on that? Do they just deposit on the small bottles and not the larger ones???)
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Reason: Broken Tap gives good advice.
It seems to be Budweiser around here, though this can looks to be a bit older than most. I absolutely can not stand people who are too lazily to throw their trash in a trash can!!
Maine does not have deposit on big milk bottles because of the intent of the redemption bottle bill. It is intended to keep the roadside ditches from having litter in them. You are not very likely to swig down a gallon of milk and toss it out the car window and thus litter, BUT you are likely to swig down a small 12 oz bottle of strawberry milk while driving and toss it out.
Why gallon sized juice bottles are returnable is beyond me though.
Maybe folks are using those gallon sized juice bottle to make pass around jugs of screwdrivers and bloody Marys, then throwing them out the window? ~~ Before coffee humor is always questionable.
Maine does not have deposit on big milk bottles because of the intent of the redemption bottle bill. It is intended to keep the roadside ditches from having litter in them. You are not very likely to swig down a gallon of milk and toss it out the car window and thus litter, BUT you are likely to swig down a small 12 oz bottle of strawberry milk while driving and toss it out.
Why gallon sized juice bottles are returnable is beyond me though.
Liely because of the landfill problems they creat.
Liely because of the landfill problems they creat.
Maybe, but the majority of our trash goes to either PERC or MERC which take municipal trash and burn it to make electricity. Its a good system I guess but it seems like the towns pay pretty high fees to have their trash (their fuel) converted into electricity for them to burn and sell to make power. But at least this trash is being used to make something tangible.
BTW: Even with our redemption bill, there is enough aluminum cans finding its way into the trash which is thus melted down but routed to a trailer truck for the plant to take back to the metal recyclers per week.
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I just looked again at my jug of Wyman's Blueberry juice and saw that it is returnable. Not that I drink big bottles of juice that much, but I'll be sure to throw them into the bottle box from now on. I bet I've lost out on all of $1 in the past year from throwing them in the plain old recycle bin! 
