Michigan House passes bottle return fund legislation washingtontimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtontimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Industry advocates say two House bills, sponsored by Rep. Jim Lilly, R-Park Township, and Rep. Kevin Hertel, D-St. Clair Shores, would allow them to make long-overdue upgrades in the trucks and machinery they use to collect billions of empties each year, crush them to bits, and cart them off to recycling plants.
Those investments, they say, would result in a smoother experience for Michiganders in grocery store bottle rooms, and bring an “element of fairness” for distributor companies that are often small local businesses.
But environmentalists worry that one of the bills would siphon state funds from their intended use: contaminated site cleanup in Michigan. They’re calling for a compromise that would compensate distributors while not taking away money from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy.
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250,000 Bottles of Wine Illegally Shipped into Michigan
One of every three bottles of wine shipped to Michigan was done so illegally.
A modern-day bootlegging industry has many in Michigan unwittingly consuming illegal booze. According to a release from the Michigan Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association (MB&WWA), nearly one-third of every bottle of alcohol shipped into Michigan in 2019 was shipped illegally. The data compiled by MB&WWA shows in total, 2,233,880 bottles of alcohol were shipped into Michigan in 2019, and of those bottles, 734,365 were shipped illegally. Data collection for 2020 and 2021 has been slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic so the number may continue to grow.
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