By the time people learn to back up their “nickels”, they will probably lose up to three billion
From the middle of next year, consumers will be able to take bottles and cans back to the shops and get four crowns back. One in four deposits will be forfeited, the ministry calculates. People will have to learn how to return PET bottles and cans, initially losing more than a quarter of the money, the environment ministry estimates. In the first year of the planned deposit of new beverage containers, people will leave about CZK 3 billion lying idle, HN calculated. The vast majority of the money from the backup is to go to beverage producers who will operate the system. Some of it will go to municipalities to compensate them for the shortfall in PET waste, which is now a highly monetisable raw material for them.
Source https://hn.cz/nez-se-lide-nauci-zalohovat-petky-a-plechovky-prijdou-temer-o-tri-miliardy-ocekava-ministerstvo