The bail strategy – a fun way in pseudo-ecology

On 1 October in Poland the bailout strategy was introduced from Germany for any plastic and glass bottles. As usual in the case of the Tusk government, it was introduced ineptly and was calculated to further impede the Poles' everyday life, but that is not the most important. Its hidden effect is to be hitting tiny shops for German trade networks.

The bail strategy is an costly game of pseudo-ecology. What is the full mechanism? You buy soda in a bottle or can, you pay more. You return the package, you recover the bail. Sounds reasonable until we figure out how much it costs and what problems it gives birth. The deposit is PLN 0,50 per PET bottle or can and PLN 1 per reusable glass bottle. The six pack of water will increase by 3 PLN.

In theory, money returns, in practice – not everyone will run with each can into a store or a vending machine. The bail bottles cannot be crushed. This will force consumers to make a fresh large space for bottles and recycling cans. Not everyone can afford it. For many consumers, the strategy means real increases. In addition, there are hidden costs – millions of investments by producers in fresh lines, labels, reporting, as well as gigantic expenditures by shops on bottles and retention of returned packages.

Any additional expenses will be passed on to customers. Effect? Inflation at drinks prices and additional burden for Polish families. Ecology? It's just a password covering the fiscal nature of the system. Poland already has the work to separate collection of waste – 5 containers on each farm. Cans and bottles go into a yellow bag and are received by the municipalities. So why make a second parallel system? It's organizational chaos that will confuse consumers and make more costs.

Plastic bottles are presently recycled, and sales of fit plastic are a crucial income that reduces the cost of garbage exports. Changing the site of plastic bottles can lead to even more costly waste management. We are facing higher charges for receiving municipal waste due to the fact that the municipalities will lose income from the sale of bottles and cans, which was an crucial part of the municipal economy system.

In fact, for citizens, the bail strategy is another taxation under the cloak of caring for ecology. This is not about the environment, but about a fresh origin of income and another control over the regular lives of citizens.

But that is not all. To return the bottles and to recover the bail, in practice, we gotta go to a German supermarket, due to the fact that only they can afford to buy and have area to place the right machines. The bail strategy so hits tiny entrepreneurs Most local stores won't take bottles due to the fact that buying vending machines is besides costly for them.

Clients will recover bail mainly in large, abroad commercial networks. As a result, that's where they're going to be buying more often, the more so that alternatively of money they'll usually get a refund in the form of... a gift certificate for more buying in this store. It should be admitted that individual from the government made this very cleverly and should not reject the thesis of lobbying for it by the Germans.

Finally, it is worth recalling that the bailout strategy is not a request of EU law, nor an initiative of Donald Tusk, but an thought of the government of Mateusz Morawiecki, which was supported by everyone outside the Confederation in 2023.

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