Yeah, reading this comment section as a German is mind boggling. You have to bring your food packaging back to the store you bought it from to get it recycled? We just have a separate recycling bin (and a separate paper bin and an organic waste bin) at home that gets picked up by the municipality
The only thing we have to bring back to the store are empty bottles to get the deposit back
There are different glass bottles, some are multiple use (water and beer bottles), which you have to pay a deposit for and bring back to the store so they get washed and reused. And others are single use (wine bottles) which you don’t pay a deposit for, and they have to be brought to glass containers (different containers for different glass colors), those don’t get washed and instead get molten down to make new bottles
Plastic bottles always have a deposit and depending on the bottle either get washed and reused, or molten down. Aluminium cans also cost a deposit and have to be brought back to the store
Right? I couldn’t get any retailer in the Los Angeles, CA (USA) area to accept shopping bags, forget cereal bags. Happy that the state sued the shit out of them then banned plastic bags though: it always sucked when I’d forget my bag and I’d have to pay for that thick-ass plastic shit.
I do still struggle with plastic bags in packaging still though because my waste management company doesn’t accept them.
Drop off at what store? In what country?
Yeah, reading this comment section as a German is mind boggling. You have to bring your food packaging back to the store you bought it from to get it recycled? We just have a separate recycling bin (and a separate paper bin and an organic waste bin) at home that gets picked up by the municipality
The only thing we have to bring back to the store are empty bottles to get the deposit back
You have to bring the glass (non Pfand anyway) to the glass container, no? I always find it a bit odd that they don’t pick that up.
There are different glass bottles, some are multiple use (water and beer bottles), which you have to pay a deposit for and bring back to the store so they get washed and reused. And others are single use (wine bottles) which you don’t pay a deposit for, and they have to be brought to glass containers (different containers for different glass colors), those don’t get washed and instead get molten down to make new bottles
Plastic bottles always have a deposit and depending on the bottle either get washed and reused, or molten down. Aluminium cans also cost a deposit and have to be brought back to the store
Right? I couldn’t get any retailer in the Los Angeles, CA (USA) area to accept shopping bags, forget cereal bags. Happy that the state sued the shit out of them then banned plastic bags though: it always sucked when I’d forget my bag and I’d have to pay for that thick-ass plastic shit.
I do still struggle with plastic bags in packaging still though because my waste management company doesn’t accept them.
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