Case summary Linn Beate Mathiassen and Thomas Aakermann from Larvik did not get a deposit on destroyed bottles and cans they had found in the forest. INFINITUM, which makes the pawning system in Norway, says that you can pawn anything, as long as the barcode is visible. Discarded bottles and cans can be sorted in metal and plastic recycling. INFINITUM and the environmental organization Keep Norway Clean do not believe that the motivation for people to pick up cans and bottles in nature is weakened by not being paid for it. Over 90% of the cans and bottles in Norway are pawned, and everything is recycled. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAI. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. She holds a flattened box in her hand. The deposit machine beeps and flashes red when she tries to push him in. – On the advertisements they say “pawn everything, always”. So why can’t destroyed bottles and cans be pawned, says Linn Beate Mathiassen. Linn Beate Mathiassen and Thomas Aakermann found that cleaning up nature was not as easy as they had thought. Photo: Lars Tore Endresen / news Last week she stood in front of a similar pawn shop in Bø. Then she had a load of destroyed cans and bottles with her. On a walk with the dog, she and her boyfriend Thomas Aakermann had found a bunch of empty bottles and cans strewn in the forest from an abandoned party. The couple from Larvik decided to clean up. They took the pawned goods to a grocery store. LEFT PARTY: At this rest area along the Bøelva, Thomas and Linn Beate found empty bottles, cans and glass bottles strewn about when they went for a walk with their dog Ice. Bottle after bottle was pushed into the hole in the wall. But the pawn shop refused. The destroyed bottles and cans did not go through. Thomas counted 48 destroyed or flattened pledge bottles and cans, which had to be put back in the bag. DOESN’T WORK: Boxes that are pinched flat are sent back out of the deposit machine. Photo: Lars Tore Endresen / news – So I contacted the staff and asked if they could enter the deposit manually. It didn’t work either. The couple contacted Infinitum, which makes the mortgage system in Norway. The answer was that the couple could not get money back for the ruined mortgage. Pawn (almost) everything, always Information and marketing director at Infinitum, Randi Haavik Varberg honors the couple for picking up the pledge. She confirms that the store could accept the deposit manually, as Aakermann suggested. – But, only if the barcode was intact. Unfortunately, the barcodes on the bottles and cans no longer fit. Then you don’t get money for the deposit either. – So you can’t pledge everything, always? – You can pawn everything, as long as the barcode is visible, says Varberg. STRICT SYSTEM: – We have a very strict approval system to know what we recycle, says information and marketing director at Infinitum, Randi Haavik Varberg. Photo: INFINITUM Varberg comes up with one more example of “mortgage that cannot fit”. Flat clamped boxes. – When the deposit goes into the deposit machine, it is squeezed completely flat. In order to avoid fraud and that the same box fits again, completely flat boxes cannot be pawned. Do you pledge? Everything, always! No, I don’t want to. Yes, but sometimes the deposit ends up in the bin… Show result – A matter of principle Aakermann and Mathiassen finally put the bag of destroyed deposit back in the store. They are clear that it is not that they did not receive mortgage money that is the problem. – It’s about the matter of principle, that you can’t get source sorted, says Mathiassen. Thomas nods. – I’m not thinking about NOK 50. But they say that you must “pawn everything”, and you must get your money back if you pawn? Linn Beate Mathiassen and Thomas Aakermann. Photo: Lars Tore Endresen / news The couple believe that it can weaken the motivation to clean up after others if one does not receive money for a destroyed mortgage. – There are more people who pick up a mortgage to make a bit of money from it. You don’t pick the flat and ruined boxes if you don’t get the mortgage money, Thomas thinks. Varberg says that destroyed deposits can be sorted into metal and plastic recycling. The deposit must be made here Intact deposit bottles: Deposit machine or deposit reception Flattened or severely damaged cans: metal sorting Bottles without or bar code or label: plastic sorting Deposit bottles must not, regardless of their condition, be thrown into residual waste. If the barcode is still visible, the store employees can pay out money for the pawned goods manually. Source: Randi Haavik Varberg, INFINITUM She understands that it is difficult for those who pick up destroyed and flattened boxes that they do not receive deposit money for their efforts. – But to be honest, I don’t think this reduces the motivation for people to pick up destroyed property in nature. It is a bigger challenge that people don’t bother to pledge at all, she says. – Not a perfect system John Harald Sand is responsible for national littering and mapping in the environmental organization Hold Norway Clean. He believes that the motivation for picking up destroyed collateral for most people is that the waste should not be left lying around in nature. Not that one should make money from it. – It is of course a shame that you do not get the money to mortgage when you have done a good job. But I think the most important thing, of course, is that there is no litter lying around in nature. DUGNAD: – Even with a good deposit scheme, bottles go astray and end up in nature, our numbers show. We have an effort to put in to pick them, says John Harald Sand from Hold Norway Clean. Photo: Keep Norway Clean Figures from Infinitum show that over 90 of the cans and bottles in Norway are suitable, and all are recycled. – The system is also not perfect. But it works to a very high degree and then the rest just has to work with a little volunteer effort to avoid littering nature, says Sand. Published 15.09.2024, at 08.19 Updated 15.09.2024, at 08.26
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