The deposit system, which is to include PET and can bottles, and from January 2026, also reusable glass bottles were to start at the beginning of 2025. However, after the protests of the food and commercial industry, the Ministry of Climate and Environment (MKIŚ) moved the start to October. Additional months, however, were not enough to prepare the system for operation.
The problem that blocks the launch of the system is, among others No framework agreement between operators.
“Operators have still not signed a key cooperation agreement among themselves (…). How long producers do not enter the system, there is nothing to collect for so long. I do not think that the system will start in real autumn – he says in an interview with Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Magdalena Markiewicz, President of the Board of Polka – Polish deposit and adds that only two operators, i.e. Polish and” OK Cault Operator “signed” bilateral agreement.
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Cause system 2025. “Customer frustration will fall on traders”
Manufacturers are afraid that the current delays will make the three -month transition period, which ends on January 1, 2026, will not be fully used. After this date, the companies will have to destroy packaging inventory without the logo of the Caucascja System.
Experts point out that the lack of clear rules and educational campaign can mislead consumers.
“Many customers are already gathering bottles without a bail stamp, hoping that they will be able to give them back in stores. It is impossible and the frustration of customers will fall on traders,” says “DGP” Maciej Ptaszyński, president of the Polish Chamber of Trade.
Conflict of interest between operators and traders
Another inflammatory point are the rates offered by operators to traders to cover the costs of system service. According to stores, they are too low.
As indicated by Filip Piotrowski, director of the Waste Free Oceans organization, operators offer rates of 10-13 groszy per packaging, which is in line with practices in other EU countries. “However, some stores would like to earn on it, which is incompatible with the regulations,” he emphasizes.
Source: Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
