2007 House Bill 5147 ↩

House Roll Call 1010: Passed

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. It would only apply in counties, and only if $1 million is appropriated to reimburse store owners for the costs of the required machines.