Project to install "bottle-recycling machines" shut down in Belarus. This was not the first attempt.
The project to install "bottle-recycling machines" in Belarus has been shut down. These machines, also known as reverse vending machines or fundomats, allow people to return plastic bottles and aluminum cans and receive compensation in return, most often in the form of discount coupons for purchases in various stores, writes Blizko.by.
The announcement about the project's closure appeared in the EcoPlatform application, an ecosystem developed by the Russian company "Innovative Ecological Platform".
It is reported that the fundomats have to be shut down due to rising costs and complex logistics.
During its operation in Belarus, over 10.5 million cans and bottles were collected.
Despite the fact that theoretically one could indeed accumulate quite a few discount rubles this way, the "bottle-recycling machines" themselves operated very unstably: they were constantly broken or simply out of order. In addition, they were filled up very quickly, and not emptied as often as users would have liked.
Ultimately, the app would simply give the user incorrect numbers, and when they arrived with a full bag at a seemingly empty machine, they might find it overflowing or blocked. Out of 12 machines in Minsk, half or even more could be inoperative at the same time.
The app has a rating system that shows how many cans and bottles were returned through different bottle-recycling machines. In Minsk, a user named 'U' set a record with an incredible 92,280 cans and bottles.
But this is not the only initiative for collecting plastic bottles from the population. Blizko.by reported: back in March 2020, a permanent reverse vending machine appeared in the Green hypermarket in the Skala shopping center at the corner of Pritytskogo and Petrusa Glebki streets. This was a joint project of Alivaria and the Green chain.
By the way, already in 2019, a nationwide deposit-refund system with reverse vending machines across Belarus was supposed to start operating, accepting cans and bottles at a fixed price (approximately 20 kopecks). Subsequently, the implementation of the system was postponed to 2021, then to 2024, and then it was decided to postpone it to a very distant future. Now the approximate launch date for the system is as late as 2035 (!!!), and without any guarantees, of course.
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