Returning
Most shops that sell beverage containers with a deposit also accept them back. In practice, nearly all food shops have a return station for beverage containers.
Most of the bigger return stations have one or more reverse vending machines. At the moment there are approximately 4000 reverse vending machines in Finland.
Return instructions for beverage containers:
- The refillable glass bottles are returned to the reverse vending machines empty and without caps.
- Cans are returned empty and whole as the machines do not accept crushed or damaged cans.
- The recyclable plastic bottles are returned empty with their caps on (caps can also be recycled). The bottles should not be crushed or damaged and the label has to be whole.