2023-10-02 19:48:58
It’s early days, but the six-monthly monitor of beverage packaging in litter has signaled a remarkable decline: waste counters found the lowest number of cans in eight years. This is what State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management Vivianne Heijnen writes to the House of Representatives. As of April 1 of this year, halfway through the measurement period, a national deposit on cans was introduced.
Subsequent measurements should show whether there is a trend here, but the counting results for small plastic bottles are already encouraging. There has been a deposit on them for two years now and their numbers of homeless people continue to decline. The monitor now finds 63 percent fewer such bottles than before the deposit scheme. “In my view, this once once more shows that deposits work, at least for reducing litter,” writes the State Secretary.
Business is lagging behind
Heijnen was significantly less pleased with the results of the Waste Fund, in which producers and importers work on maximum collection of their packaging. That was 68 percent in 2022, far from the legal obligation of 90 percent, Heijnen notes. “This means that the packaging industry will have to make a significant effort if it wants to meet the obligation in the future.” The Waste Fund has promised to come up with an action plan.
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