Returnable Efes bottles (Depozitolu)

[Keithcaley]

Has anyone else noticed that Efes beer bottles now have the word DEPOZITOLU printed on the label?

It means 'with deposit' or 'returnable', and the price that you pay includes 0.20 TL deposit.

I've not tried taking any back yet, or even asked about it in the shops, as I only just spotted it.

Let's hope that it does something to cut down on the amount of broken beer bottles scattered about.

I remember the zeal with which we used to collect empty lemonade bottles when I was a kid!

Of course, we did live in a hole in the road, - LUXURY!

[mrsgee]

We buy Efes a crate at a time from the little off license at the back of Pia Bella. 60tl a crate of 24, take the crate back each time and swop for a full one. The first one cost a bit more, so I guess that we get the returns advantage, not a lot but a bit, but more importantly we don't throw bottles away.

[LooseBoots]

I posted a thread on this subject some time ago. Lemar and Supreme say they sell it already discounted even though their signs at the time told a different story. In any event, no refund from them.

[judyvin]

Hur Deniz offer a returns system on a case of Efes. 65TL for the first case and 59TL thereafter.

[soyelcin]

Blue nun do 60tl a crate

[iancrumpy]

Has anyone else noticed that Efes beer bottles now have the word DEPOZITOLU printed on the label?

Hi Keith

The brown depozitolu bottles have been in KKTC for as long as I've been coming here.

Back in the early 90s, when I was working in Istanbul, those Efes bottles were the only ones Efes sold. In about 1995 though, Efes also started selling green depozitosuz bottles ... at least on the mainland they did. However, I for one, continued buying and returning the brown depozitolu ones - on the mainland, there was and still is a deposit on the bottles.

When I came here, I continued buying the depozitolu ... only to be told a few months after arriving that there is unfortunately no system of reclaiming the deposit in Cyprus - the bottles are not refilled in Cyprus, and the KKTC Efes distributor, who, by the way, is Ramadam Cemil (and whose headquarters are close to the bypass roundabout in Girne) doesn't send the empty bottles back to the mainland for refilling.

[puppylover]

Keith

That bought back memories!!!!

R Whites lemonade.

[iancrumpy]

... the KKTC Efes distributor, who, by the way, is Ramadam Cemil (and whose headquarters are close to the bypass roundabout in Girne) doesn't send the empty bottles back to the mainland for refilling.

Allow me to correct myself ... the Efes distributor is the Lefkoşa-based Kaner, not Ramadam Cemil.

[the butlers wife]

We have an elderly local gentleman who comes on our site looking for empty efes bottles in the bins. He also collects cans and anything he can recycle. He told my husband he gets money back on the bottles.


The butlers wife

[iancrumpy]

We have an elderly local gentleman who comes on our site looking for empty efes bottles in the bins. He also collects cans and anything he can recycle. He told my husband he gets money back on the bottles.

Hi TBW,

It would appear your "elderly gentleman" is right - I have just checked with a friend of my wife's at Kaner's head office and they do in fact have an Efes refilling plant in KKTC (at Haspolat) and moreover the depozitolu bottles are truly depozitolu.

It would seem strange to me then why the supermarkets/bakkals/off-licenses and Kaner themselves unfortunately don't have a proper refunding system for the bottles - my experiences on this matter are the same as those of Loose Boots (ie. in msg 3) - a few years ago, on returning a few of the classic brown Efes bottles to a sizeable bakkal in Mağusa, I well remember my TC wife and I being told that there was no such refunding system in KKTC.

So, thanks to TBW's eskici I've learned something new today ... the problem is that I've got used to drinking Tuborg ... maybe for the environment I'll switch back to Efes ...

[LooseBoots]

That sounds good..........drink Efes for the environment

[Groucho]

Has anyone else noticed that Efes beer bottles now have the word DEPOZITOLU printed on the label?

It means 'with deposit' or 'returnable', and the price that you pay includes 0.20 TL deposit.

I've not tried taking any back yet, or even asked about it in the shops, as I only just spotted it.

Let's hope that it does something to cut down on the amount of broken beer bottles scattered about.

I remember the zeal with which we used to collect empty lemonade bottles when I was a kid!

Of course, we did live in a hole in the road, - LUXURY!

Ah - the Corona generation!

[Groucho]

It would appear your "elderly gentleman" is right - I have just checked with a friend of my wife's at Kaner's head office and they do in fact have an Efes refilling plant in KKTC (at Haspolat) ...

Some scallywags would say - that explains the taste!