[ReformedBeckite]

When you buy a soft drink or beer in Michigan in a can or bottle you pay a 10 Cent deposit, if you bring it back you get the 10 cents back. It cuts down on littering, works well in that sense. The cans and bottles sold in Michigan state the fact that they are refundable for 10 cents, what this guy was probably doing was bringing cans that were sold in other states to Michigan to hopefully get a 10 cent deposit on it. That would be illegal. If some one buys a coke in Michigan and throws it out the window in Ohio and you find it you can take it to Michigan it get that guys 10 cents he threw out the window, but if you buy a coke in Ohio and take it across the border to attempt to get 10 cents off the can bought in Ohio they won’t give it to you, because the can will not say anything on it that indicates it was bought in Michigan or any of the states that participates in the program.

[Dead Corpse]

The people of Michigan are idiots then. They offer to pay people 10¢ to return cans to them. If you don't buy them from them in the first place, then they charge you with a crime.

Sounds like Obamacare.

[FateAmenableToChange]

It cuts down on littering, works well in that sense.

There's zero proof of that justification for the ridiculous law. If it were even slightly true, I'd expect to hit a significant increase in discarded cans and bottles the moment I cross the line into Ohio or Indiana. Instead, there's no difference.

Theoretically, one could make the case that Michiganders are such innate slobs that they are incapable of understanding the purpose of trash cans without the added incentive of a 10 cent per can deposit. Although tempting, the citizenry of Toledo or Ft Wayne are not noticeably different, and yet they manage to put their cans in the trash on a regular basis.

Overall, this is just another example of the failed regulatory mentality that has successfully driven Michigan into the ground.

[netmilsmom]

>>but if you buy a coke in Ohio and take it across the border to attempt to get 10 cents off the can bought in Ohio they won’t give it to you, because the can will not say anything on it that indicates it was bought in Michigan or any of the states that participates in the program.<<

Well, actually that is not correct.
We do a family camping trip in Findlay State Park, Wellington, Ohio, every year. All the cans are collected and we bring them back home. Whether we bought them in MI or bought them on Ohio, we get the same 10 cents.

By the same token, my family comes up to visit and they buy soft drinks here. When they take them home, they lose on the deposit.

[Eeyore4651]

but if you buy a coke in Ohio and take it across the border to attempt to get 10 cents off the can bought in Ohio they won’t give it to you, because the can will not say anything on it that indicates it was bought in Michigan or any of the states that participates in the program.

That is not true. I have a can in front of me, bought in Kansas that clearly states all the refundable amounts and states. Including Michigan.

[equaviator]

Oh, okay...I get it now.