Why is this fraud? If Michigan is so STUPID as to pay above market prices for bulk aluminium, then naurally they will attrack it from all over. Did Michigan not receive not cans that might pollute if they are not recycled?
Its not a recycling program buying aluminum in bulk. It is the administration of a ten cents per can deposit program that has been in effect in Michigan since 1976.
It is easier for stores to crush the cans to reduce bulk, and the state pays the deposit amount according to weight.
Bulk aluminum is worth about .001 cents per can, not ten cents. Returning a can for ten cents when that can was never charged ten cents at the time of purchase is fraud.