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 ...

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 ...

Shoppers in England could soon be paying a deposit when they buy a bottle of water or can of fizzy pop. Environment secretary Michael Gove confirmed ministers would introduce a deposit return scheme ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bottle and can deposit machines inside Quebec grocery stores are being removed from some locations as part of a Consignaction modernization plan. Though new sorting centres are replacing them, not ...

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 ...