Introduced
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To prohibit the sale or lease of “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), unless the machines are capable of capturing and destroying at least 85 percent of the “foreign” containers (those on which no deposit was paid), and not giving customers a credit for these. The bill establishes regulations and enforcement provisions related to these machines. House Bill 5148 requires all returnable beverage containers sold in the state to have a bar code that the machines can read and which indicates whether or not they are Michigan returnables.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
