Introduced
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To prohibit the sale of returnable bottles and cans in Michigan unless they contain an add-on universal product code (bar code) that identifies the container as a Michigan returnable one. Merchants who use “reverse vending machines” (which are the automated bottle and can return machines used by stores to collect beverage container returns and calculate customer deposit refunds) would be prohibited from using ones that are not capable of reading the UPC bar codes. House bill 5147 requires that the machines be capable of capturing and destroying at least 85 percent of the non-Michigan returnable containers inserted into them.
Referred to the Committee on Great Lakes and Environment
