photo: Bára Richterová, PrahaIN.cz/Trash bins are back
In the middle of last year, we reported that the Lidl retail chain canceled the waste bins in front of the stores, where they were replaced by bins for sorted waste inside the store. But it didn’t take long before the waste, which normally ended up in a large unsorted bin, was lying around the store or in shopping carts.
“With the cooperation of the Institute of Circular Economy, we performed municipal waste analyses, from which we found that 84 percent of customer waste is recyclable waste. We have therefore decided to cancel the bins in front of our stores and replace them with bins inside the stores, where customers have the opportunity to sort several components of waste,” Lidl’s press spokesman Tomáš Myler told PrahaIN.cz in June.
But many customers did not use these baskets. People either didn’t know about them or were too lazy to take the garbage a few meters away.
It didn’t take long for receipts, paper boxes, plastic bags, bags, cans and fruit peels to end up around the store and in shopping carts.
The mess was big. Author: PrahaIN.cz
It did not work
“We regularly remove discarded garbage, which may eventually appear in greater quantities in connection with the removal of mixed waste bins, and we try to prevent them, especially by communicating with customers,” said Myler last year.
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Although he claimed at the time that mixed waste bins went against their vision of reducing mixed waste to an absolute minimum, somewhere it failed.
At some branches, we have noticed that the bins have returned to their places. This was also confirmed by Lidl’s press spokesperson.
“The bins for unsorted waste are returned only to Lidl stores where large quantities of waste were collected in outdoor areas, baskets and the like. In addition, bins for unsorted waste will be placed at stores with a separate entrance from the exit,” Lidl spokeswoman Iveta Barabášková told PrahaIN.cz.
At the moment, according to the spokesperson in each branch, customers can return electrical equipment, batteries, fluorescent lamps and light bulbs, backup packaging, but also paper, plastics, cans and glass.
Sorted bins were installed in all Lidl stores across the Czech Republic from March to May 2023.
2024-02-04 19:07:20
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