There she is sitting and grinning at me. The no longer intact glass bottle lying on the cyclist’s path. It has probably been thrown out of a car as it passed. And on the wide bottleneck, you can read the following note:
No Deposit!
Including the fat exclamation mark. It seems like this is supposed to swing your decision to buy towards a deposit-free product. According to the motto: take me and you will not have the additional problems with the “can deposit”.
That annoys me. They actually emphasize – as a distinctive characteristic – that a product will not take part in the deposit process. Even if our excuse for a can and bottle deposit system is far from perfect, it is at least better than none at all.
😉 At the same time, the note “no deposit” is a very visible piece of information for the growing number of poor deposit-bottle collectors: do not make the effort to pick it up. Regardless of the fact that politicians keep telling us that effort must again pay.
Mind you, it all happened because of a few leaks in a deposit bottle law that is already, basically, questionable. A law that forces people to not throw plastic bottles in the container with the rest of the plastic (which, incidentally, I assumed should also be subjected to proper recycling). Instead, they have to take it back to the shop, so that it can then be shipped to China in a controlled manner. Where it will then be used as raw material for synthetic clothes.
It is also just a fairy tale that cleaning glass bottles is more detrimental for the environment than using a one-time plastic deposit bottle. Why don’t you go and ask a medium-sized brewery, such as at Aying, how environment-friendly they clean your beer bottles today.
So what do I do about it?
I drink water out of the tap. It is the same place where, in our country, coffee and tea originate. An additional advantage of this is that I need not carry crates and can go shopping without a car. And if I go a long distance, I carry the good old thermos.
As a matter of principle, I no longer use plastic bottles. To be sure, it limits my freedom of choice a little – for instance I cannot drink the fruit-mix drinks of the pious firm Adelholzner that comes in half-litre bottles. But that is also something I can easily put up with.
And beer out of a plastic bottle should be just as much a taboo for a beer connoisseur as beer out of a can!
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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