Why 99 percent of bottles in Germany get returned

Around the world, one million plastic bottles are sold... every single minute. Which makes disposing of them one of the biggest environmental challenges countries face today. Germany seems to have the best system to deal with bottles – but how well does it work? And what’s holding other countries back?

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Deposit Return Systems in Europe:
https://zerowasteeurope.eu/2019/07/deposit-return-systems-an-effective-instrument-towards-a-zero-waste-future/

Extended Producer Responsibility: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/archives/waste/eu_guidance/introduction.html

Reporter: Aditi Rajagopal
Camera & video editor: Henning Goll
Supervising editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Kiyo Dörrer

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