The deposit for reusable packaging is being studied, with greater attention being paid to plastic, glass and metal packaging used for beverages.
The Simplifications Decree converted into law at the end of July it is still very generic and does not contain many details; he says that “economic operators, individually or collectively, adopt systems of return with deposit as well as systems for the reuse of packaging”.
The shopkeepers who will adopt it will be able to obtain rewards and economic incentives.
The deposit for the reuse of bottles has always been used as an alternative to recycling where it makes environmental and economic sense, i.e. in restricted commercial circuits and well-identified logistics such as, for example, domestic or professional supplies of mineral water in glass bottles. .
The objective of the law is to extend the recourse to reuse also in larger commercial circuits and in materials other than glass, such as aluminum and especially plastic.
Today, little recourse is made to reuse in packaging while recycling prevails: after use (Conai data) 48.7% of plastic is recycled with a target of 50% by 2025 and in total 73% of packaging is recycled.
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Details: define times and methods
The rule also says that within four months, i.e. by the end of the year, the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani, in agreement with Economic Development, will have to listen to the companies involved and will have to issue the application regulation that sets the times, methods, re-use objectives to be achieved, the prizes and economic incentives to be awarded to companies that want to adopt this method, the way to avoid market distortions, the amount of the deposit, the way in which the deposit will be made to consumers at the time of purchase of the packaged drink, and then how it will be returned when the consumer returns the vacuum.
The antiplastic directive
The law on bail is integrated with the transposition text of the European antiplastic directive, that is the directive Single use plastics (Sup) that wants to limit the disposable of cotton buds, plastic plates and cutlery and other similar products.
The anti-plastics directive will come into force in Italy on January 1st, the Government’s text yesterday reached the Chambers for examination and approval in law, and says that for the disposable plastic sector, companies ” they can create voluntary bail systems’.