Deposit slip
The deposit slip is the difference between the multiple or one-way deposits received and paid out for beverage packaging.
In Germany, around 10% of the beverage packaging that was issued subject to a deposit had not been redeemed until 2006. The corresponding pledge value in 2005 was 1.2 billion euros . According to expert estimates, the deposit slip should have halved to 5% as a result of the simplification. For 2012, the Federal Environment Agency is assuming a response rate of around 95.9%. Since the statutory introduction of the deposit in Germany in 2003, the slip for the one-way deposit alone has totaled more than 3.5 billion euros by February 2017.
The procedure is as follows: The bottler charges his customer ( wholesaler ) with 25 cents per container , who then passes this fee through to the end customer in the retail chain via intermediaries. When you return the money (via a registered code on the can or bottle), the money is paid out to the last dealer by a DPG clearing house . The retailer has to pay the deposit to his supplier and gets it back from the customer as part of the purchase price . The profit made with the deposit slip remains with the bottler as income.
Web links
- Forgotten values in cellars and trunk in the Tagesspiegel April 23, 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ Idle to China. In: Die Zeit , No. 20/2010, p. 35.
- ↑ Kurt Schüler: Volume and recovery of packaging waste in Germany in 2012 . (PDF; 4.8 MB) In: TEXTE , 50/2015, June 2015, Federal Environment Agency .
- ↑ " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Germany" of 9 February 2017 page 18 ( "one-way deposit in the garbage"), with the source Naturschutzbund Germany .
- ↑ Christoph Droesser: Deposit: Does the retailer benefit from the one-way bottles and cans that are not returned? In: The time . No. 49/2015 ( online ).