Never take your bottles to the bottle bank again—that’s Johan’s job
Never having to take leaky bottles and sticky jars to the bottle bank again—that sounds good, right? Until recently, the municipality of Vught collected not only the green wheelie bin and the grey bin, but glass as well. When the municipality stopped doing so, local liquor store owner Johan Paymans took over.
In most municipalities, you simply take your empty bottles to the bottle bank every so often, but things were different in Vught. There, the municipality also collected all the glass that didn’t have a deposit on it. But a municipal reorganization brought that service to an end, and many people weren’t too happy about it, as Johan Paymans heard in his liquor store.
Borrow a cargo bike
“People told me in the shop that they thought it was a shame. Someone said: can I borrow your cargo bike, then we’ll collect the glass,” Johan tells EditieNL. And so a new service was born: anyone who takes out a subscription with Johan no longer has to go to the bottle bank, because he simply comes to collect the empty bottles from your home. Once every three weeks, Johan comes by to pick everything up, using plastic crates that customers can borrow from him for a deposit.
Door to door
All the glassware is properly recycled. According to a spokesperson for the waste company, glass is one of the materials that can be recycled most effectively. That is, as long as we don’t throw it in the grey bin. “I think door-to-door collection is a good incentive. If it’s no longer collected, that encourages people to throw the glass away with the regular waste,” he says.
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Source: RTL Nieuws
