Successful Deposit Return Store proves that deposits work here too
With the Deposit Store, a pop-up shop in Antwerp where you can get a 1 euro deposit for a PET bottle or PET bottles between 15 and 17 November, the company wants to show that a deposit system really works to keep PET packaging out of litter. With this campaign, the ecological cleaning brand Ecover supports the Deposit Alliance's demand to the […]
With the Statiegeld Store, a pop-up shop in Antwerp where you will receive 1 euro deposit for a PET bottle or PET bottles between 15 and 17 November, the company wants to show that deposits really work to keep PET packaging out of litter.
With this action, the ecological cleaning brand Ecover supports the Deposit Alliance's (Statiegeldalliantie) demand to the Flemish, Brussels and Walloon governments: "Introduce a deposit system on all PET bottles and cans".
Read also: Gazet van Antwerpen, Pop-up shop with deposit in exchange for PET bottles opened in Antwerp, 15 November 2018
Company uses PET itself and wants to collect it with a deposit system
It is remarkable that a large company that itself uses PET packaging is speaking out in favour of a deposit system. This pioneer is the first to realise that the promise of "100% recyclable" only becomes a reality when the empty PET packaging is actually collected.
Collecting more than 90% is only possible through a deposit system, as practice in Norway and Germany shows. This also prevents this plastic from ending up on the streets or in nature.
8 out of 10 Flemings want the expansion of deposits to PET and cans. Well over half of the Flemish municipalities also joined the Deposit Alliance, which already counts 826 partners in total.
The participation of companies in the Deposit Alliance underlines its very broad support: ranging from cities and municipalities, through consumer and environmental activists, livestock farmers, intermunicipal companies to businesses.
Now that for the first time a company that sells PET bottles itself also speaks out in favour of deposits, it is only a matter of waiting for supermarkets, beverage producers and regional governments to introduce this popular environmental measure. So that our sea becomes plastic-free and our country becomes clean.
See also: VRT Nieuws, Deposit Alliance opens pop-up shop in Antwerp, 15 November 2018
See also: ATV Nieuws, VIDEO Hand in your PET bottles at the Statiegeld Store and get 1 euro, 15 November 2018
Read also: De Standaard, Ecover pricks government's conscience with 'Statiegeld Store', 24 October 2018
Practical information Statiegeld Store
Period: 15 November to 17 November inclusive. Opening hours: Thursday and Friday 11:00 18:00, Saturday 10:00 18:00
Location: Groendalstraat 14, 2000 Antwerp
1 euro and a bottle of Ecover washing-up liquid (bottle made of 100% recycled plastic and 100% recyclable) per person. Regardless of the number of empty bottles handed in.
https://www.ecover.com/be-nl/statiegeld-store/
Press contact for the Deposit Alliance: Chloé Schwizgebel E: pers@statiegeldalliantie.org M: +32 497 04 27 96
Press contact for Ecover: Wilma Schippens E: wilma@blyde.be M: +32 479 95 08 55
With the Statiegeld Store, a pop-up shop in Antwerp where you will receive 1 euro deposit for a PET bottle or PET bottles between 15 and 17 November, the company wants to show that deposits really work to keep PET packaging out of litter.
With this action, the ecological cleaning brand Ecover supports the Deposit Alliance's demand to the Flemish, Brussels and Walloon governments: "Introduce a deposit system on all PET bottles and cans".
Read also: Gazet van Antwerpen, Pop-up shop with deposit in exchange for PET bottles opened in Antwerp, 15 November 2018
Company uses PET itself and wants to collect it with a deposit system
It is remarkable that a large company that itself uses PET packaging is speaking out in favour of a deposit system. This pioneer is the first to realise that the promise of "100% recyclable" only becomes a reality when the empty PET packaging is actually collected.
Collecting more than 90% is only possible through a deposit system, as practice in Norway and Germany shows. This also prevents this plastic from ending up on the streets or in nature.
8 out of 10 Flemings want the expansion of deposits to PET and cans. Well over half of the Flemish municipalities also joined the Deposit Alliance, which already counts 826 partners in total.
The participation of companies in the Deposit Alliance underlines its very broad support: ranging from cities and municipalities, through consumer and environmental activists, livestock farmers, intermunicipal companies to businesses.
Now that for the first time a company that sells PET bottles itself also speaks out in favour of deposits, it is only a matter of waiting for supermarkets, beverage producers and regional governments to introduce this popular environmental measure. So that our sea becomes plastic-free and our country becomes clean.
See also: VRT Nieuws, Deposit Alliance opens pop-up shop in Antwerp, 15 November 2018
See also: ATV Nieuws, VIDEO Hand in your PET bottles at the Statiegeld Store and get 1 euro, 15 November 2018
Read also: De Standaard, Ecover pricks government's conscience with 'Statiegeld Store', 24 October 2018
Practical information Statiegeld Store
Period: 15 November to 17 November inclusive. Opening hours: Thursday and Friday 11:00 18:00, Saturday 10:00 18:00
Location: Groendalstraat 14, 2000 Antwerp
1 euro and a bottle of Ecover washing-up liquid (bottle made of 100% recycled plastic and 100% recyclable) per person. Regardless of the number of empty bottles handed in.
https://www.ecover.com/be-nl/statiegeld-store/
Press contact for the Deposit Alliance:Chloé Schwizgebel E: pers@statiegeldalliantie.org M: +32 497 04 27 96
Press contact for Ecover:Wilma Schippens E: wilma@blyde.be M: +32 479 95 08 55
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