Bottle return

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2023. 05. 04. 09:00

From 1 January 2024 a deposit-refund system (DRS) is introduced for every glass, aluminium and plastic drink container: shoppers will have to pay a 50-forint extra when buying a drink, which they get back when returning the empty packaging.

This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2023/5

MOHU MOL Hulladékgazdálkodási Zrt. will operate the DRS system, and they invited the representatives of the Guild of Hungarian Restaurateurs (MVI) and the National Association of Tourism and Hospitality Employers (VIMOSZ) to discuss the system’s launch, and to ask the two bodies to start calling the attention of HoReCa units to the changes. Estimation is that 3.6 million 0.1-3 litre drink containers will be returned annually. The law obliges shops bigger than 400m² that sell drinks in such packaging to install a return vending machine (RVM). Hospitality units will have to take back the drink containers manually.