Deposit machine broken? Check before you haul.
For each supermarket: is the statiegeld machine working, is it broken, how long is the queue? Reported by visitors and by the store itself.
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How to read the status
- 1Working or broken: the latest report counts. ‘Working’ expires after 24 hours. ‘Broken’ stays for 48 hours, unless someone reports it working.
- 2Queue: a queue report counts for an hour. After that we show nothing.
- 3Confirmed by the store: the store sets this itself through its own link. It counts until closing time. If we don’t know the opening hours, or the store has already closed, until midnight and for at least two hours. If a visitor reports something different after that, that latest report counts; what the store reported stays visible next to it.
Frequently asked questions
How do I know if the deposit machine at my supermarket works?
Visitors report it here with one tap: working, broken or busy. ‘Working’ counts for 24 hours, ‘broken’ for 48 hours and a queue report for an hour, so you only see what is current.
Is this official supermarket data?
No. FFCheck is independent and not affiliated with any supermarket, Verpact or Statiegeld Nederland. Statuses are reports from visitors. Only ‘Confirmed by the store’ comes from the store itself.
Which stores are listed?
Every supermarket in the Netherlands that is in OpenStreetMap, refreshed weekly, plus return points that visitors add. Whether a store has a machine shows in the reports.
How much deposit do I get back?
Small plastic bottles and cans carry a 15 cent deposit, large plastic bottles (1 litre and up) 25 cents. Source: Verpact. Verpact on statiegeld (Dutch) ↗
Where do I find a return point or check a barcode?
Use the official Statiegeld App and Locatiewijzer from Statiegeld Nederland. We show whether the machine works right now and how busy it is. Statiegeld App by Statiegeld Nederland (Dutch) ↗
What does it cost?
Nothing. No account, no app. Reporting is anonymous: we store no IP address, only a code that expires every day and that we use against spam.
Statuses are reports from visitors and stores, not official fault data. FFCheck is independent and not affiliated with any supermarket, Verpact or Statiegeld Nederland. Store locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), refreshed weekly.
Privacy in Vol of niet?
- What we keep: your report (working, broken or queue; full or still room), the time and which store or container it is about. Deposit-machine reports are kept for 8 days, container reports for 3 days, comments for 14 days. A return point you add is kept with the name and street you enter, a container with its type of waste; the spot is rounded to about 10 metres. Such a point stays stored, even when it is hidden because three people reported it is not there; only when the list is full do the oldest points drop off. The server’s nightly backups can still hold all of this for up to 8 weeks.
- What we do not keep: no IP address, not your location, not your name, no account and no cookies. Your phone uses your location only to sort the list; we never receive it, except the rounded spot of something you add yourself (your phone rounds it before sending). Your browser only remembers the waste type you picked last and which ‘Are you at …?’ card you closed; that stays on your device.
- Against spam: we turn your IP address into a code that expires every day. The key for it exists only in the server’s working memory and is never stored, so after that day a code can no longer be traced back to an IP address. When you flag a comment, confirm an added point or report that it is not there, we keep that code with it, so nobody counts twice.
- Other parties: the map loads tiles from OpenStreetMap, only when you open the map; OpenStreetMap then sees your IP address and the area you are viewing. ‘Directions’ opens Google Maps, only when you tap it. There are no trackers and no ad networks.
- Your own report can be undone for up to 10 minutes. Because we link nothing to you, we cannot find a report of yours later. Questions? Email hallo@ffcheck.nl.