A bit outdated, in the Netherlands small plastic drink bottles and aluminum cans are now also part of the deposit system.
The current implementation is terrible though, the collection machines are often a smelly sticky mess due to aluminum cans leaking their contents all over. 🤢
Austria joined the plastic bottle money back gang recently
its so new that some people dont have any plan and throw them away like normally
edit: same rate as germany but not compatible
A pan-European deposit system would be a sign of true integration. And it wouldn’t even need all the countries to work, if Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria could harmonize their iconography, the collected containers, and payout amount, that would already be fantastic.
I’m from Norway. We have been recycling since the eighties, like alot. This is how you solve the problem, I totally concur. So when cola, and the likes, release tethered-bottlecaps, it’s a non-solution. It’s vitue signaling. They should bank-roll a recycle infrastructure in countries that don’t have it. That’s the real solution, but they will not do it.
True but the caps are tethered now, so in any country with a deposit system they will most likely be returned.
The complaint of the person above me was that instead of throwing the cap in the sea, people now supposedly throw the entire bottle in the sea. (When I write it out like this, that sounds like complete nonsense … Those same people previously might have thrown away the entire bottle too).
That’s where a bottle deposit system could come in.
(Recycling rate actually means collection rate, but who gives a hoot.)
A bit outdated, in the Netherlands small plastic drink bottles and aluminum cans are now also part of the deposit system.
The current implementation is terrible though, the collection machines are often a smelly sticky mess due to aluminum cans leaking their contents all over. 🤢
Austria joined the plastic bottle money back gang recently
its so new that some people dont have any plan and throw them away like normally
edit: same rate as germany but not compatible
A pan-European deposit system would be a sign of true integration. And it wouldn’t even need all the countries to work, if Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria could harmonize their iconography, the collected containers, and payout amount, that would already be fantastic.
Even the drinks industry should be a fan of that.
I’m from Norway. We have been recycling since the eighties, like alot. This is how you solve the problem, I totally concur. So when cola, and the likes, release tethered-bottlecaps, it’s a non-solution. It’s vitue signaling. They should bank-roll a recycle infrastructure in countries that don’t have it. That’s the real solution, but they will not do it.
This does not count the caps coming back, to be fair
True but the caps are tethered now, so in any country with a deposit system they will most likely be returned.
The complaint of the person above me was that instead of throwing the cap in the sea, people now supposedly throw the entire bottle in the sea. (When I write it out like this, that sounds like complete nonsense … Those same people previously might have thrown away the entire bottle too).
Ah, that would be quite the odd result of these tethers
“Let me just lob this cap to the se- whoops there goes the whole bottle damn”
Ah damn, my cola!