As of: March 5, 2024, 9:40 a.m
By: Peter Loder
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Birgit Kretzschmar demonstrates how a deposit tower works.
We are also helping our breweries, which are having significant problems because too few returnable bottles are returned.
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Deposit bottles are often carelessly thrown away.
Emmering is now fighting this problem – with a completely new design.
Emmering – In addition to the ecological component, the so-called Pfandtower also has a social component.
However, the system is already showing its first potential for improvement.
Copenhagen is not only Europe's bicycle capital, but also provides sustainable disposal ideas.
During a visit to Denmark's capital, Emmering's local councilor Birgit Kretzschmar (Greens) discovered a suggestion of how beer bottles carelessly thrown into the botany in her Amper community disappear inconspicuously.
In Emmering, shiny silver, cylindrical columns have been mounted on five centrally located lampposts for some time.
These so-called deposit towers do not exist anywhere else in the district.
Other municipalities make do with cups attached to waste baskets in a ring in which bottles can be deposited.
Beautiful and practical
“Our system is not only visually more beautiful, but also more practical,” says Kretzschmar.
In the deposit tower, the bottles are stacked face down by being pushed up into the tube through a side opening at the bottom and no longer slip out.
According to the manufacturer, the patented system, which is sold primarily by a metal processing company based near Osnabrück at a unit price of 375 euros, has another advantage: no other garbage can be thrown into the deposit tower.
Help for breweries
Emmering's CSU mayor Stefan Floerecke supports his green council colleague's initiative not only for environmental reasons: "We are also helping our breweries, which have significant problems because too few returnable bottles are returned." The return stations, each with a maximum of eight bottles or beverage cans, are emptied by building yard employees on their routine disposal tour through the town.
If that is even necessary.
In most cases, people in need or pensioners have already discovered the deposited item and used it to pad out their shopping budget when returning it to the supermarket or drinks store.
Otherwise, it is not only common in Emmering for the waste-collecting construction yard employees to redeem the bottle deposit for a snack.
The locations
Initial experience of how the project is being received by citizens has not yet been collected in Emmering.
We'll just have to wait until the next summer season.
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So far there are locations at the town hall, at the fountain on Dachauer Strasse, on the footpath between Amperstrasse and Hauptstrasse and two at the community center.
However, a practical test with Birgit Kretzschmar revealed that at least handing over bottles at the station on the forecourt is quite complicated.
And Green Party councilor Birgit Kretzschmar also has other suggestions for improvement: “The deposit towers must be visually easier to recognize; stickers or information signs would be ideal.”
You can find even more current news from the Fürstenfeldbruck district at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.