The Detroit News. The measure to require 10-cent deposits on water, tea and fruit drinks has merit.
Environmentalists credit the law with visibly reduced road-side and beach bottle and can debris.
They claim the litter has been reduced by 80 percent. The MUCC, the state's largest conservation group, favors the inclusion based on the tremendous growth in sales of noncarbonated beverages in recent years. Waging a counter-offensive is the Michigan Recycling Partnership, a coalition of the state's largest grocery store chains and bottling companies. Under the current system, he says, retailers already have their hands full sorting, accounting and returning containers to the major bottlers for recycling. It's going to be a horrendous burden for them to include all the products from literally dozens of companies.