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Germany has a return rate of PET single-use bottles with deposit of 98.8%. Of which ~95% are recycled.
by ysleepy 7y ago
Germany has a return rate of PET single-use bottles with deposit of 98.8%. Of which ~95% are recycled.
- Scoundreller 7y agoI wonder how much the numerator is biased by fraud like: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/05/fraudster-made-1m-from-recycling-bottles-german-court-hears https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/05/fraudster-made... and https://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/topic/52114-lithuanian-scam-on-german-bottle-deposit-returns/ https://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/topic/52114-lithuanian-... Apparently you could produce fake bottles for a few cents and get a 5-15x return.
- BjoernKW 7y agoI'm not sure about the prevalence of this issue today but about 10 years ago I helped create a fraud protection system specifically targeted at deposit return fraud. However, at the time at least the problem apparently wasn't so much people manipulating return machines but rather bottles miraculously appearing out of nowhere from within the system (i.e. parties trying to register a bunch of bottles more than once or attempting to remove bottles in-between checkpoints in order to "reuse" them later on).
- hn23 7y agoMy point is: The idea of the law was to reduce the plastic output but quite the opposite happened. Every bigger company introduced their own version of plastic bottles you cannot bring somewhere else. Also your number is also very specific: Are there non PET single use bottles as well? What counts as recycling anyway. Shipping to China? Burning?