BE: Glass bottles with deposit fee – New project Empty Logistics

The use of glass bottles for beverages remains popular in Belgium, especially for beverage traders and the catering industry. The costs of sorting out, transporting and storing these empty bottles are not to be neglected and often not very transparent. In a new project the Flanders Institute for Logistics (VIL) aims to analyse and reduce these non-value adding costs.
A deposit scheme is in place for the glass bottles. A significant share of the logistic activity in the beverage and retail industry consists of managing the flows of empty bottles. With its project Empty Logistics, VIL wants to reduce the total cost of the supply chain of returnable empties (Press Release VIL, 18 April 2017).
Click here for the press release (in Dutch).
Click here for more information about the project.

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