Non-compliance with the deposit obligation is prohibited with immediate effect, the ILT indicates that it will enforce this from June.
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The reason for the ruling is an investigation by Kassa and Recycling Netwerk Benelux (RNB) last November, in which they saw that supermarkets sometimes incorrectly do not charge a deposit on some juice bottles.
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There is an exception to the deposit requirement for bottles with 100 percent juice. Supermarkets such as Albert Heijn and Jumbo make use of this exception, while they did add sugar or water to the juice, Kassa says.
After this investigation, Recycling Netwerk Benelux submitted an enforcement request to the ILT, which ruled that a deposit must be paid for these types of juice bottles. Since 1 July 2021, there is also a 15 euro cent deposit on small plastic bottles of soft drinks and water.
‘Flag hangs out’
“The flag is out”, Robbert van Duin, chairman of the RNB, responds to Kassa. “This ruling makes compliance with the deposit law more correct. We will find fewer of those plastic bottles in the environment. The deposit reduces the number of plastic bottles in nature by 70 to 90 percent.”
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