If you live in one of the 10 U.S. states with a bottle deposit program, you’re probably familiar with the idea of feeding your empty plastic bottles or aluminum cans into a machine and getting a few ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine — In a twist on processing beverage bottle and can returns, Hannaford Bros. here has replaced “reverse vending machines” in 20 of its 51 Maine stores with a service that accepts ...

Many things have changed since 1980, but not Connecticut’s bottle deposit refund. Consumers have been receiving the same 5 cents back for soda and beer cans for the past 43 years. But that will change ...