On January 1, 2007, the Secretary of State began retiring and replacing Michigan's standard blue license plates. With approximately 5.6 million blue license plates currently in circulation, the Department of Environmental Quality is encouraging motorists to recycle their old license plates rather than throw them away. Please click on the links below to find your local recycling contact and to find out how to recycle your license plates.

List of license plate recycling locations.

County Recycling, Composting, and HHW contact list.

Press Release Announcement.

License Plate Poster.