Many visitors to the Trek festival, last weekend in Tilburg, find it ridiculous what you have to pay for ‘deposit’. Before your first two wines at the bar you paid twenty euros and for two fresh ones you as a visitor lost fourteen euros. That was because of the deposit, which you as a visitor did not get back. “Ridiculous prices”, the reviews say.
You can take the glasses home with you, and then use them again next year. But what if you only go once? “The amount is instead of entrance costs,” explains owner Emile Faulborn.
“Maybe Tilburg will have to get used to it. You pay three euros twenty for your cup and four euros twenty for a wine glass from plastic. You can take the following editions with you. Bar staff is requested to explain this well,” says the owner of the food truck festival that is being held in Tilburg and Den Bosch, among others.
“What should I do with that plastic ‘glasses’?”
But in practice this often turns out to go differently and visitors do not understand the concept. In reviews they fully complain: “Very nice festival, but less is that I have spent fifty euros in deposit with twelve men and do not get this back.” And someone else says: “There is a strange policy for drinks. You have to buy a plastic ‘glass’ that you can top up. As a result, there are glasses of people who leave everywhere. Why not a deposit system?”
Another visitor complains: “Paying four euros extra for your plastic ‘Glass’ with your first drink is really too much! You can take the glasses home, but what do I have to do with those plastic glasses? Know for sure that most of them will disappear in the Kliko. Nothing more environmentally friendly would be. A more environmentally friendly solution would be worked back and you get this back on the deposit of a deposit on deposit on deposit on deposit on deposit on deposit.”
“Misruente and forbidden.”
For many, it is not entirely clear how the system works. But apart from that it is even forbidden to mention the extra amount of deposit if a visitor does not get the deposit back, knows Charlotte Meindersma. “If the deposit is mentioned, you should get your money back, when the ‘glass’ is returned. Otherwise you simply call it buying. That must also be clear to the customer. So calling a deposit in this way is misleading and prohibited.”