Recycling guarantee machines for separate collection of plastic, glass and metal packaging waste will be placed in various places throughout Cyprus so that citizens receive monetary compensation as part of actions to reduce the consumption of disposable products. It is essentially an automatic machine that accepts warranty packaging waste such as water bottles, soft drinks and beers and returns the warranty fee.
From today, and for two months, the Department of Environment puts in public consultation a draft of the Packaging and Waste Packaging (Guarantee System) Regulations. The draft Regulations provide for the establishment of a guarantee system for the disposable primary packaging of beverages, on the basis of which for these packages a monetary fee will be paid by the buyer which is returned to him upon the return of the guarantee packaging waste for separate collection and recycling. .
The Regulations set out the detailed provisions for the operation of the system, the obligations of producers and importers, the distributors of these products on the market and catering services and the framework for the payment and refund of the warranty fee and the creation of return points of packages. .
The return of warranty packaging waste will be made to warranty waste return points either by the use of warranty recycling machines, with the possibility of returning the packaging warranty waste 24 hours a day in the case of warranty recycling machines located outside or on the premises. operation of those premises in case the machines are installed inside the premises or manually with the possibility of returning the warranty packaging waste during the opening hours of the premises of the distributors warranty packages.
In supermarkets beyond 200 sq.m. The return of warranty packaging waste will be done using automatic warranty machines.
Guarantee packages include specific product categories as defined in the Combined Nomenclature (CN) of the “Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System” of the Customs Cooperation Council.
In particular, they include water, soft drinks, malt beer, other fermented beverages (eg cider, apite, mead, sachet), as well as spirits, liqueurs and other alcoholic beverages with a lower alcoholic strength by volume. or equal to 9% vol.
For warranty packages up to 3 liters, excluding water warranty packages made of PET plastic up to 0.5 liters, the fee is 10 cents, while for water warranty packages made of PET plastic up to 0.5 liters per end is 5 cents.
The Minister sets, through the terms of the System operating license granted, minimum collection and recycling targets, including preparation for reuse and other types of recovery, depending on the type of warranty packages available to members of the system on the market.
These targets may amount to (a) In terms of preparation for reuse and recycling, up to 80% of the total weight of warranty packaging waste available to market participants; and (b) In terms of separate collection for recycling , up to 90% of the weight of the plastic beverage bottles with a capacity of up to three liters that the participants in the System have on the market.
source: Φilenews
