Voters may get a chance to expand Michigan's bottle deposit law

[RandySF]

LANSING, MI – Michigan voters are a step closer to a chance to expand the bottle deposit law to include water bottles and other beverage containers.

Voters may even be able to force retailers to accept all containers with a deposit, whether purchased there or not – what the bureaucrats call “universal redemption.” These proposed changes are included in a pair of bills that may be considered by the Michigan Senate Committee of the Whole as early as this week.

“I believe that these two concepts have broad popularity in Michigan. They are simple, straightforward and easy to explain,” said state Sen. Sean McCann, D-Kalamazoo, who sponsored both bills this year – Senate Bill 1112 and Senate Bill 1113.


https://www.mlive.com/environment/2024/12/voters-may-get-a-chance-to-expand-michigans-bottle-deposit-law.html

[MichMan]

1. "Voters may even be able to force retailers to accept all containers with a deposit, whether purchased there or not "

You don't have to prove that you bought it there to redeem it there, but stores now don't accept bottle returns on products they don't even carry.

Under this new proposal, some obscure niche market beverage (craft beer?) purchased in Traverse City and only distributed in a limited region could be returned at any independent Party Store in Detroit 250 miles away. Not to mention some Wisconsin beers sold in the Western UP, but not distributed downstate.

Let's say someone brings in a 6 pack of empties. How is the store owner supposed to be reimbursed for the refunds and then dispose of them?

[multigraincracker]

2. Nest, ban plastic bags.

Blowing all over my ;yard and the highway.