Michigan’s bottle return rates keep falling. Is it time for change? - BridgeDetroit

Michigan’s bottle return rates keep falling. Is it time for change? - BridgeDetroit

Michigan beer and pop buyers increasingly aren’t bothering to return their bottles and cans to get their deposit back, and in the process left more than $116 million dollars on the table last year. This story also appeared in Bridge Michigan Records released this month indicate that 70.4% of 10-cent deposits put down at grocery store checkout lines were refunded in 2024. That’s the lowest percentage since the Departme…