Mission Short

Turning empty bottles into local impact by donating statiegeld money to community projects that support sustainability.

The Challenge

A lot of people care about sustainability but don’t always know how to make a difference in daily life. Returning bottles is an easy habit, but it usually ends there. Hence, the impact stays individual and disconnected. At the same time, small local organisations working on sustainability often lack stable funding. There’s potential value in statiegeld bottles that isn’t being used collectively yet.

The solution

We want to place collection boxes for statiegeld bottles in central spots of the university and donate the refund money to local sustainability projects. The process would be simple and transparent. Over time, we’d like to work with local partners (first ideas include: Maas cleanup initiative/ Lyreco) to grow the initiative and show how small, shared actions can actually support change in the community.