Friday, April 5, 2013

If you want to save some money..don't throw any bottle out to the garbage!

Denmark is a country where people take a lot of care of environment and they are more used to recycle than other countries, like Spain. But it is easier in Denmark than in Spain because in Denmark people are payed for recycling; so they have an special interest in doing that. 
When you buy a drink you are paying a small deposit extra for the plastic, glass or aluminium bottle, but if you give the bottle back into the supermarket, this extra deposit is returned to you. 

Which bottles can I recycle? Almost all bottles have a small black logo consisting in two arrows surrounding the word "Pant" and a letter, which can be "A", "B" or "C". This logo means that you can recycle the bottle and the letters are indicating the amount of money you will obtain for the package:
  • Type A = DKK 1.00
  • Type B = DKK 1.50
  • Type C = DKK 3.00
In this image you can see that the amount of money that you receive it depends on the material and the size of the bottle. 

But where you have to go to recycle the bottles? You can return bottles and cans in any supermarket, using an automatic bottle bank (flaskeautomat). You have to place the bottles inside, with the bar code facing downwards, and once you have finished press the green button and take the printed ticket that you can exchange into the supermarket's check-out.

Some machines have an yellow button, that you have to press if you want to donate your "recycled-money" to charities.

Flaskeautomat 
For example, in this ticket I obtained in LIDL you can see I recycled 13 type A-bottles and 5 type B-bottles; so they returned me 20,50 Kr.

Recycling it helps you to save some money!

In these videos you can see how the flaskeautomat works: 



Do you think that is a good way to motivate people to recycle? 
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 5, 2013 at 2:17 PM

    aleluya! U have found a job in denmark! ;)

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  2. UnknownApril 5, 2013 at 3:50 PM

    But, thanks to recycling my cans/bottles i'm paying my washing machine every week! So, the point is: If I want to have my clothes cleaned I have to drink a lot of beer to recycle the bottles :)

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  3. FerranApril 13, 2013 at 8:48 PM

    I believe it is a good idea to recycle and to clean the city. I can easily imagine collecting them on the street just to make some money. But as you know these machines seem a bit expensive and now in Spain... No money, man.

    Ferran

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  4. UnknownApril 14, 2013 at 12:49 AM

    Even in Denmark, danish poor people are richer than spanish poor people..! But you can see easily a lot of people collecting bottles from the garbage in order to recycle and obtain some money..! You know, if you come here, you can earn some money doing the same..!

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