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MGM Grand Detroit is pitching recyclable beer bottles

Tuesday, March 7, 2000 | 9:14 a.m.

"Our facility has constrained us in terms of storing used bottles," the casino's vice president for marketing, Nancy Ziolkowski, said Monday. "We do recognize it as a problem. Our beverage department is working with a company that's coming up with options" on how the casino may begin recycling.

The casino doesn't want local charities offering to take the bottles.

"I don't want all the local charities calling me. I don't think that would work for insurance reasons," Ziolkowski said. "The areas behind our bars are restricted areas. We can't have people coming in there to pick up bottles."

MotorCity Casino has a contract with an entrepreneur who collects its empty beer bottles three times a day and pockets the deposits, spokesman Tom Shields told The Detroit Free Press.

Every year, $12 million in bottle and can deposits go unclaimed in Michigan. Twenty-five percent of the unclaimed money goes to beverage distributors and retailers to compensate them for recycling costs. The rest goes into a state fund for environmental cleanup.

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