10 Arrested in Michigan Redeemable Soda Can Con

NewmanMichigan will give people 10 cents per recycled can.  10 cans = $1.  Easy money, right?  Easy to exploit?  Yeah, but you probably should be careful.

A group of 10 were busted in a multi-state can smuggling ring that netted them around $500,000.   That’s a lot of cans.  A whole lot of cans and that’s probably how they got caught.

The best part is that the article references a Seinfeld episode where Newman and Kramer plan to take advantage of the 10 cent redemption.

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