The waste processors do not agree with this. Before the ban, the cylinders could still be returned. This happened en masse because the deposit was often 30 euros per cylinder. Now that deposits are no longer paid since the ban, the bottles end up on streets, squares, in nature or in waste containers.
Corijn therefore advocates a deposit on the cylinders. According to the ministries, there was never a formal deposit system: “However, there was their own system with deposits from the nitrous oxide traders. This only applied to cylinders that were refillable.”
The traders themselves have decided to stop the deposit, according to the ministries. The cylinders that now explode frequently are manufactured differently than before, they say in their joint statement. The new bottles are ‘for illegal use and not refillable’.