Lisbon Mayor Calls for End of Volta Recycling Scheme

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The future of the Volta system, created to encourage the return and recycling of beverage packaging through a deposit system, is again under discussion. There is a large municipality that wants to end now...

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Recycling and reuse policy "is necessary", says Social Democrat Carlos Moedas. But "it should not be either a tax or a social drama".

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The president of the Lisbon City Hall returned this Tuesday to ask the government to end the system of packaging storage Volta. Carlos Moedas says that it is a tax for those who pay it and an unprecedented social drama. These are good arguments, but the truth is that the autarch is afraid [...] The article Fear of Coins is that the Lisboners put it on Volta because it has a lot of can first appeared in False Press.

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We truly live in a global village, and people living thousands of kilometers away face the same problems as us. In Lisbon, they turn up their noses at the deposit system.

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Lisbon authorities are calling on the Portuguese government to abolish the deposit system, arguing that its introduction has had negative social consequences.