“From tomorrow, we won’t see shelves filled with SGR packaging,” said Environment Minister Mircea Fecet, who also gave an idea of ​​what to expect from the return guarantee system. In January, we will have 15%, in February we will probably already have a quarter of the shelf with SGR packaging, and by July 1, the entire store shelf will be exclusively with SGR packaging, the minister was quoted as saying by News.ro.

Mircea Fecet, the Minister of the Environment, said on Wednesday that we will not see the shelves filled with SGR packaging from tomorrow, and in the first month, that is December, it is expected that 2% of the packaging will be on the market, and by July 1 the whole shelf the store will be exclusively with SGR packaging.

“From tomorrow, we will not see shelves filled with SGR packaging,” the environment minister said on Prima News’ România Politică show, stating that ordinary bottles without this logo are not included in this program.

He noted that he had heard that citizens were collecting containers and PET on the balcony. “The machines are calibrated and programmed to check the unique bar code and return guarantee system logo to ensure that when they issue a citizen guarantee of 50 money, that guarantee has been paid for the corresponding PET,” he added.

The minister also noted that in case of non-payment of the package guarantee, the ReturRo company will have nowhere to pay the guarantee.

“It’s important to know that from tomorrow, these smart collection systems, as well as manual collection stores, will be checking very carefully whether the package is SGR, which is a package that has paid 50 cash guarantees,” he said. he clarified.

Mircea Feshet was asked when we will have only SGR packaging, he said that “according to statistics, in the first month, December, we expect to have 2% of the packaging in the market”, the weight refers to the packaging that we will see on the shelf.

“As it is written in the law, it is the right of the trader, distributor and especially the right of the manufacturer to exhaust the available stocks, I am not going to return the goods from the stores back to the factories for relabeling,” the minister explained.

He noted that June 30 is the legal stock-out deadline, so they have seven months to clear the existing stock on the market, and the percentage of products with the SGR logo will increase. “In January we will have 15%, in February we will probably already have a quarter of the shelf with SGR-container, and by July 1 the entire shelf of the store will be exclusively with SGR-container.

The minister admitted that the syncope will be like a period of adaptation as they have taken the experience of 13 member states and know what will work first time and what is down the road.

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