Poland preparing to launch bottle and can deposit system

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1. This would be a godsend, but also I hope it’s not too much to ask to make them aesthetic? 

2. Wow, Poland has truly entered the 21st century by 2025.

3. Despite all the online whining on certain Irish forums, the launch of it over here in 2024 has gone pretty smoothly, with decent uptake.

   Starting to see a few of the bulk machines appearing too, so you can finally just throw in a full bag of bottles and let it do the handling.

4. We have one in Romania since about two years ago. The good thing is it works. Close to 80% of bottles get recovered nowadays. The bad part is the machines are always filthy, since many people don’t bother draining contents completely. As I’ve seen them, the Poles would do naturally better at keeping it tidy.

5. We’ve been doing this in NY since 1982. Welcome to the free homeless street cleaning club.

6. Romania is doing it since 1-2 years ago. Good for the environment but terrible for people, last time I’ve waited for more than an hour to get my turn to deposit the bottles and get my ticket. The machines are always crowded, they stop very often and need a technician to start again, some bottles and cans are not recognized by machines and you can’t recover your money. Hope Poland will do it better!

7. Wait what, this isn’t normal everywhere? In Finland it has been around at least since 90s and every store has at least one machine.

   Best thing is some machines you can just pour like 100 cans and it processes them in like a minute.

8. Am Norwegian.

   I thought this was normal on Europe in general?

9. I don’t understand why this isn’t already in every EU country, there should be some kind of law to make these necessary. In Finland the bottle deposit systems work really well and less people are throwing bottles on the ground, and even if they do someone will pick it up and make some money.

10. It’s worth it. Looks like 97% of containers with deposit were returned in 2023 here in Finland.

    Not many loose bottles or cans around when people have incentive to pick them up.

    Now if all trash could be recycled for money, then we’d be clean in no time.

11. Seems like a good initiative

    We should adopt something similar

12. Finland and the nordics have had this for ages. It’s certainly a good incentive to recycle when some money is involved. I wish we’d do this kind of recycling with other single use plastic items too.

    Like, for example the little plastic containers microwave food comes in

13. I really hope France will implement this soon at a national level, because it’s very convenient. But seemingly, some people/institutions earn too much with the current system (all the bottles and cans going to trash) so there is no will to implement the deposit system at a large scale.

14. They put these machines in Ireland, they smell of spilled beer all the time, leave your hands sticky and oftrn dont read 1/4 of bottles, the queues are long and honestly i hate the whole experience dearly.

15. >crushed cans won’t be accepted

    If the bar code is readable then why not accept a can no matter what state it’s in? That sounds annoying as all hell.

16. Works well in Ireland. I use them regularly. The streets are much cleaner than before. I was over in London last week and was shocked at the filth! Bottles and cans dumped everywhere. If they did the return scheme that shit would disappear over night.

17. For the final father fugging time.

18. Came into Ireland last year people were outraged at the pointlessness of it and how the machines were always broken… Then enough people figured out how to actually use the machines and now we all think it’s great.

19. Heh, things I took for granted that every European country had.

20. In the UK I see so much can and bottle litter. I really don’t understand why this deposit system hasn’t been implemented. It’ll help so much.

21. We’ve had it for as long as i can remember in sweden

22. I hate this system we brought it in here in ireland recently ,
    just seems like a scam to me when we already used green bins to recycle perfectly fine practically free all our bottles and cans with very little effort
    but now we have to not crush them and bring a rubbish bag to the shop to deposit them and waste time ,
    also not every shop does it either ,so waste your time have a smelly bag of rubbish you have to bring to the shop ,do that or essentially pay an extra hidden tax all while here anyway it worked perfectly fine before ,

    oh and now our normal green bins for recycling arent making money off recycling so are also upping the prices for collection too and the return company has already made millions in unclaimed deposits almost like that was the fucking plan.

23. I hope they do a better job than we do in Austria.

24. I remember that when I lived in Dublin, how impossible there were to find a can deposit system.

25. Wait they don’t do this everywhere yet?

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