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Hospitality businesses that want to get back the deposit they have paid on beverage containers are in a difficult situation. They say MOHU isn’t prepared to handle the more than 3 billion aluminium, PET and glass packagings generated by the retail trade and catering sectors.
This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2024/11
Catering establishments have to register in the new system, but so far only 450 – 1% of HoReCa businesses – have been able to do so, because registration can take up to 5 months due to the inexplicable administrative burden. There isn’t enough available storage capacity in catering units to collect the 1,000 bottles (15 bags) needed to request a collection from MOHU, as cans and PET bottles mustn’t be compressed and larger waste containers can’t be installed in catering units.
László Kovács, president of the Guild of Hungarian Restaurateurs (MVI) pointed out: until special reverse vending machines become available to hospitality businesses, we can expect to see collection trucks blocking the streets in the centre of Budapest once the registration problems are solved, parking in front of bars and restaurants. After a meeting with MOHU, MVI vice president Rudolf Semsei wrote a letter to Krisztina Henyecz, chief advisor to the CEO of the Hungarian Tourism Agency, outlining the DRS-related problems of MVI members and the possible solutions to them, e.g. the installation of special reverse vending machines in existing waste yards, where HoReCa businesses can take back PET bottles and aluminium drink cans even if they have less than 1,000 of them, and making it possible to request mobile collection by MOHU already from a quantity of 300 bottles. //
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