Norway's 'Pant' bottle deposit system opens up new plastic containers
Containers for Norwegian supplement Sana-sol will be the first outside of regular drinking bottles that can now be placed in deposit machines at local supermarkets.
The dietary supplement has been on sale since 1933 and can be found in the majority of grocery stores.
Around 300,000 of Sana-sol bottles are sold annually in the country. It is estimated that 16,000 kilograms of plastic will be recycled thanks to it being included in the deposit system.
The bottle of the multivitamin product is dark brown with a bright yellow label. It will have written on its label on the back that the deposit is now worth 2 Norwegian kroner, like the majority of cans and small bottles.
And it might just be the start of a huge expansion in plastic containers being included in the system.
Norways PANT system is run buy the company Infinitum, which says it is considering expanding the scheme to detergents and cooking oils plastic containers.
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"This news means that 16,000 kilograms of plastic, which was previously sorted as plastic packaging at best, will now be collected with much greater certainty through the deposit system and recycled into new plastic products," said Line Berg Dørum, Head of Sustainability and Innovation at Orkla Health.
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Today's Norwegian deposit system collects around 93 percent of all the products that have added deposit.
They are then recycled and used in the production of new bottles and other plastic products within the country.
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