Voters may get a chance to expand Michigan's bottle deposit law [View all]

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