Polish entrepreneurs do not like the deposit system, which has been in force in Poland for several months. On their behalf, the Employers' Organization, the Enterprise Council, appealed to Prime Minister Donald Tusk to suspend the system and conduct an audit of its effectiveness, as well as to stop working on including further packaging into it.
“We constantly read reports in the media about how much the deposit system makes life difficult for ordinary Poles and how much it generates unjustified costs for the economy,” emphasizes the president of the organization, Adam Abramowicz, in a statement.
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Entrepreneurs: the purpose of the deposit system is not being realized
In the letter, the organization reminds that even before the deposit system was introduced, it raised specific objections to it, but its votes were not taken into account. He also mentions numerous information in the media and social media about the burdensomeness of the system for consumers and the costs for the economy. According to Adam Abramowicz, it is a mistake that the state is unable to monitor the costs and effectiveness of the system on an ongoing basis.
The authors of the letter emphasize that after six months of operation of the deposit system in Poland “alarms should be sounded.” They write about numerous technical, logistic and sanitary difficulties for stores, settlement problems and freezing of funds, high service costs and slowing down the sales process.
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Entrepreneurs operating in the waste management sector also have many reservations about the operation of the deposit system. This is also mentioned in the OPRP letter. “The introduction of the deposit system causes drastic increases in waste collection throughout Poland. However, the largest food companies that introduce drinks in disposable PET packaging benefit from the deposit system,” we read in the OPRP letter to the Prime Minister.
The authors of the letter claim that the main goal of implementing this system, i.e. care for the natural environment, is not being realized. “The current regulations lead to a significant increase in the carbon footprint by transporting waste using an alternative collection system, as well as, to a large extent, transporting air (uncrushed bottles),” they emphasize.
The entrepreneurs end the letter with an appeal to stop the system “before it leads to irreversible damage to the economy.”
