With empty bottles, the Ticket numbers

In Rome, Beijing, Mumbai, and they are: vending machine, the empty PET bottles to swallow and in return, public TRANSPORT Tickets spit out. Just last summer, Rome's municipal authority has drawn up such devices.

The Initiative is called "+Ricicli+Viaggi": The more recycling, the more you travel. "So just the circular economy works," said Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi at the launch. The thing is also in the EU sense, which seeks for PET-bottles up to 2029, a recycling rate of 90 percent.

vending machine at the Bellevue and at HB

Impressed by the System, a Zurich-based: AL-Councilman David Garcia Nuñez is. He has tried the devices in Rom already. In this country, where the PET recycling rate has stagnated despite major efforts, 82 percent, would such a machine is also useful, see Garcia Nuñez and his Council colleague Andreas Kirstein.

"The cost of public transport for many people in the city of Zurich prohibitively high", justify your proposal to the city Council. Who could afford a VBZ Ticket, the stay not only to have access to Tram, boat and Bus denied, but also the participation and urban social.

pressure on the ZVV

Now, the two from the city Council asking to be with this idea at the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) representations. He would work for the set-Up of the vending machines at major transport interchanges, for example, at Bellevue, or at the Central station.

survey

Would you pay for your Ticket with Pet-bottles?

Yes, this is a good thing
no, that would be too tedious
no, the only promotes sales of Pet bottles

Yes, this is a good thing

63.4%

no, that would be too tedious

26.9%

no, this only promotes the sales of Pet-bottles

9.7%

93 votes

Yes, this is a good thing

63.4%

no, that would be too tedious

26.9%

no, this only promotes the sales of Pet-bottles

9.7%

93 votes

In contrast to the classic PET-Recycling, to the traders, manufacturers and importers need to take care of your law yourself, before hovering Garcia Nuñez and Kirstein for the financing of Ticket-vending machines with taxpayers ' money. "The new, by type of waste separated recycling collection points at tram stations are ultimately financed from the ORE," says Kirstein.

you wanted to protect the climate by increasing the proportion of public TRANSPORT use and the recycling rate, it is also the duty of the state to create the appropriate incentives. "I wish that more original ideas as they are tested."

the Recycling ticket machine works in Rome.

750'000 bottles in 11 weeks

In Rome, the model is not just for the mayor well. "Beyond all of our expectations," was after a few months of the balance sheet of Pietro Calabrese, a top official for Transport and traffic. Within eleven weeks, had been disposed of in the three machines 750'000 bottles – for the equivalent of 25'000 tickets. They wanted to set up further devices.

Still easier than the System in Rome – there are five Euro cents in a Ticket to be per bottle, which disappears in the vending machine, App credited – does the System work in the Indonesian city of Surabaya. For over a year, you can already pay the second-largest metropolis of the country bus with beverage bottles or plastic cups. Five bottles is only a two hour drive. Machines are not necessary: The bus driver will receive the plastic waste like money and delivers it in service at the end of the Recycling.

plastic money differently: In the Indonesian city of Surabaya can be directly with beverage bottles paid for.

Created: 09.12.2019, 12:19 PM