Claim: The decision will rob storage areas and create unreasonable costs that will lead to an increase in the price of drinks • Ministry of Environmental Protection:
The retail chains have announced their intention to appeal to the High Court against the decision of the Minister of Environmental Protection, Gila Gamliel, to apply the deposit law to 1.5-liter bottles as well.
The minister's decision comes after many years of struggle between beverage manufacturers and retail chains and green organizations, with the leader in them being man, nature and law.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection will give the economy a preparation period of about a year before the extension of the deposit law.
According to the chains, this is a move that will increase the cost of the drinks, since the operation will be based on them, instead of their proposal to place vending machines on the streets.
According to them, so far most of the cans are collected by irrelevant populations from the garbage cans and not through households.
The implementation of the law will require the chains to allocate storage space and manpower to manage the bottle inventory for recycling.
Adv. Nofar Tal, an expert in regulation and retail and a legal advisor to marketing and food chains, told Israel Today that "retailers, or at least some of them, intend to appeal to the High Court in the coming days against the serious and unconstitutional violation of their fundamental right to property under the Basic Law: Honor. Man and his freedom. "
Adv. Tal added that in her opinion, the Deposit Law on Cans and Bottles was also unreasonable when it imposed the cost of its application on supermarkets. Today, the harm becomes more severe because of the volume of bottles.
It further claims that this law will require any store owner who is larger than 100 square meters to maintain a warehouse of used bottles with dirt that will be placed in an area that should be as sterile as possible.
"The deposit - at the expense of the customers"
Another argument of Adv. Tal is that the PA does not have a deposit law and the law here that will give a value of 0.7 shekels per empty container, will be an incentive to smuggle bottles to Israel. Today the transportation of empty bottles for 0.3 shekels is less profitable, Another problem with the law: in neighborhood stores, for example in areas of the ultra-Orthodox who consume large bottles, they will not be obliged to accept bottles for recycling, since these are stores smaller than 100 square meters, but customers will pay the deposit.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection responded: "With the application of the deposit, Israel joins an expanding club of developed and advanced countries that have applied a deposit to all beverage bottles. The collection machines will allow the public to recycle easily and help clean the public space. In front of the writers.
"Regarding smuggling and importing bottles from the Palestinian Authority: writers can only be credited for bottles marked with a deposit. Bottles without a deposit mark will not be allowed to be refunded. Also, the business is not obligated to receive from the same consumer more than 50 empty beverage containers marked per day. "It doesn't make sense to smuggle bottles of bottles to the writers."