Beverage Container Deposit Return System in Slovakia: Insights after One Year of Its Introduction

• Autorzy: Malgorzata A. Jarossová , Katarína Gubíniová

Warianty tytułu

System zwrotu kaucji za opakowania po napojach na Słowacji: spostrzeżenia po roku od jego wprowadzenia

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Every year, consumers buy more and more beverages packaged in disposable PET bottles and aluminium cans. Most of this packaging is used only once and also very often pollutes the environment due to inappropriate consumer behaviour. Deposit return systems for bottles and aluminium cans play an important role in preventing such situations, offering consumers a financial incentive, a deposit that motivates them to return used packaging. The purpose of the article was to describe consumer and company insights related to the new deposit return system for PET bottles and aluminium beverage cans in Slovakia, based on the authors' own research and secondary research. Furthermore, the authors also wanted to show the solutions of some companies that try to facilitate to consumers the process of returning disposable packaging.(original abstract)

Z każdym rokiem konsumenci kupują coraz więcej napojów pakowanych w jednorazowe butelki PET i puszki aluminiowe. Większość z tych opakowań jest używana tylko raz i bardzo często zanieczyszczają one środowisko na skutek niewłaściwego zachowania się konsumentów.Ważną rolę w zapobieganiu takim sytuacjom odgrywają systemy kaucyjne za butelki i puszki, oferując konsumentom zachętę finansową - kaucję, która motywuje ich do zwrotu zużytych opakowań. Celem artykułu jest opisanie spostrzeżeń konsumentów i firm związanych z nowym systemem zwrotu kaucji za butelki PET i puszki aluminiowe po napojach na Słowacji na podstawie badań własnych autorów oraz badań wtórych. Ponadto autorzy chcieli pokazać rozwiązania stosowane przez niektóre z firm, które starają się ułatwić konsumentom proces zwrotu jednorazowych opakowań.(abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Recycling; PET Packaging; Packaging

PL

Recykling; Opakowania PET; Opakowania

• Czasopismo: Nauki Inżynierskie i Technologie / Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu
• Rocznik: 2022
• Numer: nr 1 (38)
• Strony: 75--89

Twórcy

autor

Malgorzata A. Jarossová

• University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia

autor

Katarína Gubíniová

• Comenius University Bratislava

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DOI

10.15611/nit.2022.38.05