I am assuming you pay some kind of an up front fee for can and bottle purchases in Mich. That you get back when you return the cans and bottles. Part of this is so that you don't throw your cans and bottles in the ditch. Which is good. Don't throw your cans and bottles in the ditch. But would it not be simpler to not pay your up front fee and not have to store your stinky cans and bottles until you got sick of looking at theem and they were in your way? Then your state could save bunch of money by not paying somebody to give the cans and bottles a ride on a fancy truck to the big washing machine facility that cost millions of dollars so a bunch of workers there could sort out the cans and bottles and end up throwing a large percentage in the gargage anyway. Then the cans can get crushed in an expensive crusher and be given a ride to the can-melter-down-facility that also cost a lot of money. They used to send a lot of the cans to China but China even figured out that it didn't pay to fool with them. The cleaned up bottles can go on another county owned truck to the plastic shredding facility which also costs a lot of money staffed by workers that make a pretty good wage by feeding the fancy plastic shredding machines. Then the shredded plastic goes on another truck to some other facility where they make somehting out of it. It is a stupid, expensive, complicated and unnecessary process. But that is what you are stuck with I guess. I do not throw cans and bottles in the ditch. I even pick up blown SkiDoo belts that I see on the side of the trail and transport them to the nearest garbage can. The people that throw cans and bottles in the ditch and throw blown belts in the woods would do this whether there was a deposit or not. Once again the many have to put up with a complicated process designed to get the few to dispose of garbage responsibly. Which will never happen anyway.
