Just Refund or Include Glass Packaging: Block Wants to Change System Volta
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The 10 cents should be paid by the companies that put the packaging on the market, defends the Block. In the system Volta, the consumer pays 10 cents extra per bottle or can; value that is then returned to a machine own, where the consumer places the container. The Minister of the Environment has come to describe the Volta as one of the biggest environmental projects in Portugal but the system, which started a few months ago, has already accumul…
The Left Block wants to change the Volta system and proposes that the value paid for bottles and cans will no longer be supported by consumers. The party also argues that the unclaimed funds will fully revert to the Environmental Fund and to the municipalities.
Left Block proposes that operators support ten cents deposit on the Volta system, not consumers.
Block argues that Volta becomes both more profitable for whoever manages it and worse works, since unclaimed deposits revert to the managing entity if the targets are met.
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