Since January 1, 25 cents are owed pawns on PET registration bottles and aluminum boxes (with Pfandlogo). Recycling Pfand Austria, the central settlement site of the new promise, takes the balance after the first half of the year. A total of more than 357 million containers have already been returned and there are currently seven to nine million a day.
In order to increase the collection rates for pets and aluminum boxes and to meet the EU requirements here, Austria has chosen the introduction of a deposit system on pets and aluminum roses-and the 18th country in the EU. Now the figures are available for the first half of the year. “We are happy that we can draw a positive balance after six months and the system is so well accepted by consumers,” said Monika Fiala and Simon Parth, the management of recycling Pfand Austria. In total, 357 million deposit containers have already been returned. 48 percent of them were plastic bottles, 52 percent aluminum boxes.
The efficiency of 80 percent will be achieved by the end of the year
If you take into account the period of eight weeks, whereby a container from Botteling to the average return (for example at the wholesaler, in the warehouse, in the supermarket), you are not already worried about achieving the collection percentage of 80 percent that is aimed at the end of 2025. Currently between seven and nine million removable deposits in the detailed retail in the detailed trade in the detailed trade in the detailed trade in the detailed trade in the detailed trade in the detailed trade in the detailed trade in the detailed trade in the detailed store in the detailed store in the detailed trade in the detailed trade in the detailed retail trade in the detailed retail trade in detail in the detailed retail trade in the detail in the detailed retail trade in the detail in the detail in the detailed retail trade. Retail. The very high degree of expansion of machines contributes to this. Fiala: “With currently around 6200 devices we have the second highest automatic density in Europe”.
Consumers are satisfied
The satisfaction of consumers with the new deposit system is also encouraging. Three -quarters of the Austrians support the model, 80 percent feel well informed, according to a current survey. “But we are not satisfied with that,” said Fiala and Parth at the same time. It will be explained even better why the deposition system is important. “The area is now cleaner, no one can care,” the managers emphasize. You also protect the resources. Many thousands of tons of the collected bottles and doses were already bought back by the drink companies and did not have to be bought, for example from abroad. The price for a ton of aluminum is currently around 1500 euros and at PET around 600 euros.
A difference with the “yellow bag” is also that the collected disposable deposit invoicers only result in high -quality products and, for example, no plastic tubes. “There is no t-shirt from foodish pet,” summarizes Fiala. The motto is: bottle to bottle and can be can.
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In the past few weeks there have been incidents time and time again where the most needs “deposit collectors” are looking for 25 cents or doses of manure bucket and therefore occasionally causes waste mountains. Recycling Pfand Austria are more individual cases. At the same time, the advance of some cities is welcomed in order to confirm the authorized representative of “pion rings” to nonsense. The needy can then take the containers and get the down payment without searching the manure bucket. The city of Linz was the pioneer here, but also Salzburg, Klagenfurt, Graz and Innsbruck offer this solution or have a test phase. The federal capital is still resisting here, but conversations are being sought with Vienna.
“Pawn slip” not as high as rumors
Because not all buyers actually reduce their containers, the settlement company remains the so -driven deposit slip. The managers emphasize that the return of 90 percent of 90 percent requested by 2027 is around 60 million euros per year. The money is an essential part of the financing of the deposition system. The legislator also provided this in the deposit regulation. The biggest items are the reimbursement for the dealers (three cents per competition) or the logistics costs. A new sorting system in Burgenland (Müllendorf) must also be completed and must be put into use towards the end of the year. The containers are currently being processed at three locations. In the future there should only be the location in the west and the new in Burgenland.
Source: Krone
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