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Amendment to Deposit Law for Beverage Containers Ready for Knesset Enactment
Updated: 12/28/2009
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Israel's Economic Affairs Committee approved the amended Deposit Law for Beverage Containers for second and third readings in the Knesset (parliament) on December 27, 2009. Upon approval, Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan declared: "Completion of the enactment process for the new Deposit Law sends a real message to Israel's residents, since it imposes the obligation to collect bottles on manufacturers and increases the public's ability to recycle. I intend to continue to promote the waste treatment revolution in Israel and to close the enormous gap in which we find ourselves in relation to the world's advanced countries. I intend to promote the enactment of a Packaging Law which will provide a full response to the treatment of household waste." Knesset Member Carmel Shama, who led the deliberations of the Economic Affairs Committee on the law stated: "The committee I head conducted in-depth discussions on the subject in order to advance the recycling revolution. As a Knesset member who spearheads environmental issues, I welcome the approval of the law for second and third readings which will increase the rate of recycling." Following are the main changes to the Deposit Law: - Imposing direct responsibility for collection on producers and importers: meant to facilitate compliance with more ambitious collection targets, with the cost of bottle collection imposed on manufacturers alone.
- Obligating collection and recycling of all beverage containers: applying the law to 700 million additional bottles whereas the existing law applies only to the collection of small beverage containers.
- Widening the obligation to receive empty containers at sales points: obliging marketing chains to receive up to 50 containers per person every day, whereas today, some shops refuse to accept such containers. The new law establishes compensation of up to 1800 shekels for anyone denied the ability to return a bottle.
- Canceling the possibility for reducing annual recycling targets: preventing the possibility to reduce collection targets, as is the case today when the recycling corporation presents an application for retroactive exemption from compliance with recycling targets.
Significance of the proposed amendment: - Obligation on the part of manufacturers and importers to place and operate 20,000 bottle collection bins throughout the country (compared to 8,000 collection bins today) at a cost of tens of millions of shekels each year.
- Collection of at least 50% of the large bottles which do not require collection and recycling today (some 370 million beverage containers).
- Deposit of 30 agorot on small containers and a collection target of 77% - some 490 million containers a year, compared to 420 containers that are collected at present.
- Direct fines on producers and importers for non-compliance with collection and recycling targets.
- Producer rather than consumer responsibility for collection: an 11% increase in collection targets (from 66% today to 77%) will transfer financing costs from consumers to producers due to producer responsibility
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