Purchases of bottles of water and juices or cans of beer, cider and soft drinks must now be accompanied by a 5 to 15 cents bottle fee, Jornal de Notícias reported in its issue this Saturday, the 15th. Can.
The money will be returned to the consumer whenever he delivers empty packages to one of the return points set up for this purpose in a future single-use package escrow system, such as supermarkets or liquor stores.
For bottles less than one liter, containers can range from five to ten cents, and one to three liters should range from 10 to 15 cents. But bottles will still have to be handed over to eco-centers.
These are the values recommended in the study that defines the economic and regulatory model for the future placement system for plastic, glass, ferrous and aluminum beverage containers to which the newspaper had access.
The assessment, requested by the Portuguese Environmental Protection Agency and prepared by 3drivers and Nowa, considers the introduction of packaging early next year to be “unworkable” and de-charge by the end of the first half of 2023.
According to the document, wines, spirits and other drinks with an alcohol content of more than 10%, milk and drinks containing more than 25% of ingredients of dairy origin are currently excluded from the system, as they can create an unpleasant odor in cars. and packing storage locations.
