GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Team leaders at Meijer say after shutting down for more than two months, the bottle return areas at certain Meijer stores are starting to hum to back to life.
A Meijer spokesperson says select stores throughout Michigan are testing new procedures for bottle and can returns ahead of Monday’s reopening. Meijer plans to release guidelines for customers planning to return bottles and cans later this week.
Schupan and Sons, Inc., a recycling processor, says more than 600 million depositable containers have piled up in Michigan since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a March 24 in executive order aimed at curbing coronavirus. That order has since been lifted.
Officials with the Michigan Department of Treasury announced last week that retailers exclusively using reverse vending machines housed in a separate area or at the front of .