Why Should You Return Your Empty Bottles and Cans?

Its beginning to warm up outside, and if you are like the many who enjoy a nice cold beverage from time to time, you may be wondering just what the best way to get rid of your empty drink container would be. Improperly disposing of your empty bottles and cans can be quite wasteful, and when you are looking for the best way to get rid of your empty beverage containers, there is no better way than to return them at your local grocery store’s bottle and can returns. But why should you return your empty bottles and cans?

Helping Make a Positive Impact on Michigan’s Environment

When you return your empties at your local bottle return and can return, you are actively helping to preserve Michigan’s environments for the future. With 100% of every glass, plastic, and aluminum container returned recycled to make new bottles and cans, returning your empties helps to cut down on wasted materials, ensuring that Michigan’s natural resources are preserved. Not only that, but for every 12 pack of cans recycled through Michigan’s bottle and can return systems, co2 emissions are reduced by about 1.8 pounds, about the same amount of emissions released when powering a home in the united states for 3.5 hours!

Helping to Put Your Dime Back Into Your Hands

When you buy a bottled or canned beverage you are also paying a 10% discount on the container. In order to provide a monetary incentive to influence to return their empty bottles and cans, the only way for you to get your 10 cents back is to return your empties at your local bottle and can returns. Bottles and cans can add up quickly, and if you don’t return your empties, you’re essentially throwing 10 cents that could be used for groceries, drinks, dinner, or anything else you could spend it on.

Helping to preserve Michigan’s environment, while putting your dime back into your hands, making sure that you return your empty bottles and cans is truly the responsible thing to do. If you are interested in learning more about why you should return your empty bottles and cans, or if you are looking for more ways to get involved, we invite you to contact us at Take Em Back today!