I added a paragraph to my deposit-post, but I wonder how many return to read old posts even if they are marked with Updated, so here's the update all by itself:
I just looked a bit further; 8 % of all bottles and cans with deposit
marks are not cashed.
8% does not sound like very much -- but it amounts
to 140 millions bottles and cans.
Even if all were the lowest rate, 140 million Danish Kroner is a huge sum of money.
It is approximately equal to:
18.800.000 €
20.142.150 US $
16.211.418 £
30.379.594 Australian Dollars
27.072.010 Canadian Dollars.
Blogger putter stadig tilfældige kommentarer i spamfængsel. Jeg lover at slippe dem ud hurtigst muligt.
Blogger is still randomly putting comments in spam-jail. I promise to free them as fast as possible.
I shudder to think how many of our bottles and cans are not recycled. We can do better, we should do better, we MUST do better.
SvarSletYes, we MUST, and the Danish system is, I think, the best way. I only today found that plans for making it EU wide exist, and that's good! Only the deposit needs to be more money so as to be a true incentive to everybody.
SletThat is a lot of waste. Here, it's worse. Glass containers, only 31.3% are recycled. Steel containers, 73.8%. Aluminum (which would include soda cans), 0.7% overall, and aluminum beverage containers, 50.4%. All types of paper, paperboard and cardboard, 14.3%. All types of plastic, 5%, with plastic beverage bottles and some types of food containers specifically as high as 29%.
SvarSletThat was the figures for 2018. It's a sad and sorry state of affairs when so little is recycled overall.
My first thougth when seeing numbers like these is: Recycling must be made easy. Our numbers took a jump upwards when paper and glass containers were placed at regular intervals, in small villages (like my place) and near shopping centres.
SletIt is a lot of waste and I wonder that councils do not hire someone to use a backend hoe tractor or similar to trawl through the loads as they are dumped, councils can then collect the cash from recycle centres for themselves to use.it probably is just too easy for people without cars or those who don't care, to throw these collectibles in with the general trash.
SvarSletIf only it went into general trash ... here most of the non-cashed 8% lies along the road. An effort is made each spring where The Danish Society for Nature Conservation organizes a road spring-cleaning (not covering all roads, and also lost of city). Around 15.000 cans are picked up every year - of these 60% are no- deposits (from tax free shopping over the borders). The deposits from this day funds some of their projects.
Slet