Jul. 13—WEST BATH, Maine — On a recent morning, Tricia Rines, a redemption center worker in the small town of West Bath, Maine, expertly tossed dozens of different plastic returnable bottles into ...

Nobody with a stake in the nonprofit-run redemption site plan seems entirely happy with how bottle and can returns will soon ...

Jade Eddy, owner of MT Returnables redemption center, right, helps to sort bags of empty cans and bottles returned for 5 cent deposits on June 22 at MT Returnables redemption center in Queensbury.

In this Feb. 11, 2011, file photo, a truck carrying bottles and cans pulls into Green Bee Redemption, a recycling center in Kittery. Credit: Joel Page / AP Ever since it was implemented 45 years ago, ...

Grocers pulled support for Portland’s alternative Bottle Bill center — canners and small stores face uncertainty as ...

The state’s HI-5 program was meant to be an incentive to recycle, but that’s getting a lot harder to do. Several viewers reached out to us using the Report It feature on our website, saying several ...

General Manager Dave Makson (left) and sorter Arthur Fralin place bottles in the appropriate bins at Damon's Beverage and Redemption in Bangor. Credit: Courtesy of Damon's Beverage and Redemption ...

Bottle and can redemption centers at retail outlets reopened after two months this weekend, with new distancing rules that left some collectors indignant and others relieved. Despite differences in ...

Before the deposit on returnable cans and bottles in Connecticut doubles to 10 cents and the types of redeemable containers expands, the state is offering grants to foster more redemption centers in ...