Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan's 10-cent beverage bottle and can deposit program was once the envy of the recycling nation, boasting a return rate above ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine — In a twist on processing beverage bottle and can returns, Hannaford Bros. here has replaced “reverse vending machines” in 20 of its 51 Maine stores with a service that accepts ...

Michigan’s dime deposit program is almost 50 years old and is always in the news because of efforts to expand or repeal it. But, do you know what happens to that plastic and aluminum when you take it ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Here’s a good question about bottle and can returns for recycling. There are actually two parts to this with two answers. Here’s a comment from a viewer: “I went to a local ...