Man with 10,000 nonrefundable bottles heads to trial

http://www.livingstondaily.com/story/news/local/community/livingston-county/2016/07/21/brian-everidge-prelim/87353026/ ^

[Reno89519]

Why? I’ve lived in states with and without bottle deposits. The states with bottle deposits have less, even little or no discarded bottles and cans along the roadways. Very nice improvement.

[aft_lizard]

Irregardless its fraud no matter what you think of recycling.

[RC one]

I live right across the border from Michigan, Junkies are always collecting bottles and cans and taking them to the grocery store right across the border and cashing them in for dope money.

[Bob]

Did I miss something? Would it have been too much trouble for the reporter to say what the rate is in Michigan? While the deposit rates are.listed for California, Maine and Vermont, I didn’t see the rate for Michigan.

[PROCON]

Kramer?

And accomplice...

[BenLurkin]

The recycling taxes should never have been enacted in the first place.

[BenLurkin]

More than 15 cents, I guess.

[gigster]

Re: Deposits on plastic bottles and cans. Here in Michigan we do have a ten cent deposit on plastic bottles and cans, but I must say that the law very definitely cleaned up the streets and highways of thoughtlessly and contemptuously thrown away bottles and cans. It is virtually the only law I've ever seen passed that actually did what it's sponsor's said it would. I go so far as to rinse every bottle and can I get because of the mess and possible insect infestation.

[Bob]

I’m thinking the same but that would seem to be a pertinent fact to include in the article.

[BenLurkin]

Illegal yes, apparently but hardly fraud in the moral sense.

Malum prohibitum, and not malum per se.

In fact, it is a noble thing he was doing if t=saving the environment is the goal.

[ModelBreaker]

“...upends the recycling efforts of the state collecting and refunding deposits.”

And that is bad because . . .

[tumblindice]

My brother and I did the same thing.
Enough 3¢ bottles and we had a 12¢ comic book or package of Hostess cup cakes, Twinkies or Snowballs.

[djf]

Yup!

The old glass Coke bottles, mostly. Two cents for the 12 or 10 ounce size, a nickel for the bigger ones.

Me and my brother used to wander the streets in upstate NY and find tons of them! Literally!

[WKUHilltopper]

Just tell them you’re a Clinton or just say no hablo ingles...and they’ll let you off.

[outhousepatrol]

Only 10,000? PIKERS!! Years ago we would “smuggle” 40,000 cans from Iowa to Michigan...........cans were double stamped Iowa 5 cents, Michigan 10 cents.

We got busted! Fined us $25 and gave us our cans back!

After spending the night in the Benton Harbor slammer.

[tumblindice]

Yeah, the hoop Coke bottles, ‘swirly’ RC cola, the green 7 Up bottle, Dr. Pepper with the clock face, Nehi orange and grape, Big Red, Mountain Dew with the mountain man on it—money just waiting to be picked up ...

But then we met nice girls, got jobs, started families and our wives made us stop.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I wonder how many deposits are collected and never claimed.

[djf]

Nehi grape.

Man, those were the days!

A hundred degrees outside, and sittin in the shade with a freezing cold Nehi grape...

We were dirt poor, but life was good!

[1rudeboy]

Cleaned up Michigan very nicely. I was there to see it, also.

[a fool in paradise]

You “steal” from the government (and schools) if you actually CLAIM your lottery ticket winnings as well. Think of the children, that ticket only cost a dollar. Fuggedaboutit.

If they want to prohibit out of state bottles, then require individual state labels from producers.