Recycle bottles and cans
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Nowadays there are almost 5,000 container-return machines across Finland. The first bottle recycling programmes began back in the 1950s. These guys have collected abandoned bottles and cans and are going to return them to get the deposit money. (The stats come from the website of Palpa, the nonprofit company that runs Finland’s bottle and can recycling operations.) How it works Manufacturing new cans from recycled aluminium requires only 5 percent of the energy that would be used to make cans from scratch, and making new glass from recycled glass consumes 30 percent less energy than manufacturing glass from scratch. Beverage containers become part of the circular economy as their materials are recycled into new containers or reused in other products.
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Recycling bottles and cans conserves energy and raw materials, and reduces litter in cities and wilderness areas. Since Finland handily surpassed that mark years ago, its system is attracting notice as a possible solution for use in other countries. Approved by an overwhelming majority of the European Parliament in 2019, the directive stipulates that, by 2029, 90 percent of plastic beverage bottles should be recycled. The EU directive on single-use plastics has focused additional attention on bottle recycling and sustainability. The factors that make this possible include automated bottle-return machines developed decades ago and the expansion of the system to include plastic bottles in the 2000s. Convenience is the cornerstone of the system’s success.įinnish residents returned more than two billion bottles and cans in 2020, 93 percent of the total amount purchased in the country. Finland’s system for returning beverage containers started in the 1950s, and today almost every bottle and can is recycled.