do you have to deposit your plastic bottles?

In your stores, there are more and more instructions for plastic bottles. In exchange, you can receive a voucher in the store, or it can turn into a donation for an association. Each bottle earns a penny. “A year and a half ago, we were at 1,000 bottles. Now we’ve gone to 8,000 and it’s only increasing“, explains the deputy director of the Intermarché des Longs-Champs.

Go to 90% recycled bottles in 2029

But this deposit system does not bring anything to communities because the plastic is then recycled in the private sector, unlike the bottles that we throw in our yellow bins. “Tomorrow, if we have 5,000 collection points throughout the territory, only initiated by the distributors, it will not come back to the communities. This means that it is potentially 50 million euros of loss“, explains Bérangère Couillard, Secretary of State for Ecology. For the Minister, a public deposit system would encourage recycling. The objective is to go from 60% of bottles recycled today to 90% in 2029.