Transnational deposits on bottles

The daily Diena criticises Latvia's waste disposal system. "Latvia is so full of rubbish that one can barely believe that here in [the central Latvian city of] Jelgava we have the largest recycling plant for PET bottles in Eastern Europe. Only [the northern Latvian city of] Valka is clean because its Estonian twin city Valga installed a machine for taking back bottles like those to be found all over Estonia three years ago. If a Latvian wants to go there and get cash for his rubbish he just has to do one thing: keep his mouth shut and not say a word in Latvian, because you don't pay a deposit on bottles purchased in Latvia. And the Estonians do not react kindly to their neighbours trying to pull a fast one on them."

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