Michigan's 10-cent beverage bottle and can deposit program was once the envy of the recycling nation, boasting a return rate above 95%. But in recent years it's slumped badly. The state shut down ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WJRT) - A new large capacity bottle return machine being tested at two Meijer stores in Michigan could revolutionize how customers redeem their 10-cent refunds. The machines ...

For any shopper who's fed one bottle or can after another into the redemption machine at the supermarket for those 10-cent beverage deposit returns, it sounds like a breakthrough: a machine where you ...

Ever experience that sinking feeling when you walk into your local grocer with bags of returnable cans, only to be greeted by a line of people trying to do the same? The process of returning beverage ...