GREEN: Cain Eder: reusable milk bottles: Now foods have to drag the trade and the desire of consumers to meet

Refilling instead of throwing away reusable instead of plastic, Rewe, Spar and Hofer have to follow suit after the announcement of Bergland milk and Greenpeace!

Linz (OTS) – „It is progressing in the fight against the plastic tide. Now the food needs to follow suit trade and the desire of consumers to reusable milk bottles meet. If we have the beer for decades, a functioning reuse system, then we can do this also in the case of the milk bottle,“ says the Deputy. Federal spokesman of the Greens, member of the Landtag of Stefan Kaineder from upper Austria, about the announcement of the company Berglandmilch in the future, the milk glass bottle in a reusable system to offer the food trade.

„We, the greens, have already in the past summer, an Initiative in upper Austria. The Parliament started, and ultimately, a unanimous resolution in the Parliament passed that called for a new legal framework for beverage, reusable system. The upper Austrian Landtag waiting on the answer of the Chancellor Short and to the Minister of agriculture Köstinger“, calls on kaineder, the agriculture spokesman of the Green party of upper Austria, the Federal government to Act.

Approximately 1.5 billion plastic bottles were thrown away, according to Greenpeace calculations annually – that is equivalent to about 45,000 tons of plastic waste is causing in the year. Overall, Austria can produce the inside and the Austrians about 900,000 tons of plastic waste annually, approximately 31 percent of which comes from packaging.

„It is clear: a beverage reusable System for milk bottles solves all the plastic waste problems, but it’s a huge step in the right direction, which is required by 80 percent of consumers already, as a recent survey by Greenpeace showed. Specifically, the biggest Austrian food retailer, Rewe, Spar and Hofer are now required to join and to help the Comeback of the milk bottle to make the breakthrough. Consumers, dairies and the policy are ready for change, now the trade must keep pace,“ Stefan demands Kaineder the grocery trade on his part to the solution of the plastic flood.

Green OÖ:
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Mag. Stefan Hauer
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