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Michigan lifting ban on can, bottle returns

LANSING, MI (AP)--   Load up the trunks! Michigan residents who have been burdened for weeks with bottles and cans can return them again to stores, starting June 15.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had suspended the returns because of the possible spread of the coronavirus. As a result, bottles and cans with 10-cent deposits have been piling up in basements, garages and under the kitchen sink.

There are estimates that the returnables are worth millions of dollars. Some people simply dropped cans and bottles in recycling bins or donated them to nonprofit groups.

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