Deposit ring
The deposit ring is a receiving device for empties with a deposit at public garbage bins.
Description & purpose
It can be stretched around a container without damage or screwed onto it. A deposit ring has storage space for bottles and cans that are to be deposited in it as empties. The empties should expressly not be thrown into the garbage container, but rather placed visibly on the outside so that bottle collectors can get to the empties more easily. Rummaging in the garbage is associated with considerable hygienic and health risks. In addition to the social benefit, an ecological goal is also achieved: raw materials from bottles and cans are recycled and not burned together with the residual waste.
history
The Pfandring was developed in 2012 by the Cologne product designer Paul Ketz, who presented it for the first time at a competition organized by the Cologne waste management companies and came in second for it. The ring received the eco-design award for young talent.
A first test run for use took place in Bamberg in 2014. However, there is a discussion in many cities as to whether the deposit ring is useful. The CDU in Cologne complained about the visual appearance, but the Left did not see it as a sufficient means to combat the underlying social problem. A small model test in Cologne showed that the ring made it difficult to empty the containers. As an alternative, pawn lanterns were developed, but they failed the test. Other criticism was that the ring made the empties so easily accessible that not only previous bottle collectors, but also well-off people would remove the bottles and thus fewer empties would be available to those actually in need.
Around 70 municipalities now use the Pfandring.
In 2014, the Pfandring was presented in the VOX program Die Höhle der Löwen , but it was not accepted by an investor.
In series production, a deposit ring costs around € 220.
Web links
- www.pfandring.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e WORLD: Pfandring: This invention helps Germany's bottle collectors . May 16, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed October 6, 2019]).
- ↑ Polit-Posse about pawn rings - "A bit silly". Retrieved October 6, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Bastian Angenendt: Why the deposit ring still ekes out a niche existence. February 13, 2016, accessed October 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Mona Jaeger: Pfandammler: Fight for every bottle . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 6, 2019]).
- ↑ Deposit rings in almost 70 German cities. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Pfandring | The lion's den | Startup humor. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .