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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 15 hours ago

I’m assuming the credit is going to a government program or non profit organization.

Not really. It's complicated.

Basically all of the money is being shuffled between importers/manufacturers, stores and consumers.

Germany has about 95-98% return rate for the bottles (mainly because it's somewhat lucrative to collect them). So very little money is left over.

There's a company called DPG that is responsible to make sure that no part of the system is profiting of it unfairly

Germany wikipedia (annoyingly only available in german) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfand_auf_Einweggetr%C3%A4nkebeh%C3%A4lter_in_Deutschland

All in all, it's a net benefit. I remember the time before this system, and you had drink cans littered around everywhere. Ever since the system is in place, I can count the amount of littered cans (e.g. cans that are too crushed to be returned) on maybe one hand

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