Recycling in K Market

[buldozr]

It always annoyed me that the machines would not accept the bottles for juice concentrate though, if they are so high minded in recycling then why doesn't the machine take those in for chopping up?

Eh, you do know that normal (non-pantti) glass (coloured and white) and metals and paper, etc is collected at recycling stations all around the city?

That's true, but the cheapo concentrates (Marli, Mehukatti etc.) are sold in plastic bottles which are somehow not in the deposit system. Maybe the logic here is that these bottles are not used up at the same rate as ready drinks go. They should have tested this theory with my kid...

Any "irregular" glass bottles I just dump into the glass container near our railway station.

[Karhunkoski]

That's true, but the cheapo concentrates (Marli, Mehukatti etc.) are sold in plastic bottles which are somehow not in the deposit system. Maybe the logic here is that these bottles are not used up at the same rate as ready drinks go.

Mehukatti to recycling? You don't have any fish traps then?

[Upphew]

Mehukatti to recycling? You don't have any fish traps then?

Not to mention kilju...

[mysuomifinland]

I hope this video will help you with your question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nO9qMDnslA

[Rosamunda]

...a bit long... but a nice idea

By the way, I take everything back to Lidl. Doesn't matter where I bought it.

[foca]

I often shop in a small "Estonian" shop in Vantaa . They mark plastic bottles directly imported by them by hand, so if returned to them a certain sum will be reimbursed. The same bottle in k market will be accepted in the machine with zero return. I suppose it is still possible ( by the bar code) for the machine to recognize the bottle type and appropriate it for disposal accordingly. Some ALKO bottles (expensive French wine mostly) are not refunded , ever...... Glass jars are sometimes accepted , without reimbursement of course. As per my personal experience the widest range of bottles is accepted at Heino , but not that many people have a chance to shop there.....