If we use a deposit return scheme for all cans and bottles, households will have to sort four times more, says Sandra Phlippen, Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Economics and Head for the Netherlands of ABN AMRO’s Group Economics. According to Sandra , there is a better way to achieve this. We should allow companies to earn from deposit return schemes. This will also be beneficial for the environment, as meadows and seas will get cleaner as well.
As such, Sandra agrees with the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB). The CPB namely stated that the deposit money that consumers pay at the cash desk should be retained, while the sorting and recycling is left to companies. In that case, companies will fight for the deposit money after consumers have thrown their cans and bottles away and they will not only collect cans and bottles from garbage cans, but also from meadows and rivers. The only task that will be left to the consumers, is to shop at the supermarket that charges the lowest amount of deposit money. Then, you will see dat producers will become very creative with regards to recycling.
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Read the whole article (only in Dutch) on Algemeen Dagblad, 18 August 2018