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A project by students of Ignatianum University in Kraków

Good starts with an ordinary bottle.

A bottle-return machine at Ignatianum University in Kraków. Return your bottle and donate the deposit to support Ignatianum students and their initiatives.

See how it worksWhere to find the machine

Plastikowa butelka z etykietą „Kaucja 0,50 zł”

Three moves. One bottle.

  1. Drop

    Return a deposit-system bottle at the machine by the car park exit.

  2. Donate

    You choose what to do with the deposit: take it on a card or donate it — all of it or as much as you like.

  3. Return

    Come back again. Every bottle counts, and a small gesture repeated every week makes the biggest difference.

In the heart of Kraków, close to people.

The machine stands in central Kraków, near the Old Town and the Main Railway Station. One gesture on the way: to class, to work, to the basilica, to the train or from the car park.

  • Ignatianum students and staff

    On your way to class. Your bottle comes back to you as support for students.

  • Worshippers at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

    Right next to the basilica. A small, shared gesture for the community.

  • Drivers and residents of Wesoła

    Leaving the car park in the city centre? Stop for a minute.

  • Tourists and passers-by

    Coming from the station or the Old Town? A bottle from your journey counts too.

Your deposit supports students.

50 groszy is a trifle. But when there are hundreds and thousands of bottles, small change turns into real support for students.

1 bottle
PLN 0.50
100 bottles
PLN 50
1,000 bottles
PLN 500
10,000 bottles
PLN 5,000

Calculated for a PLN 0.50 deposit donated in full. You decide how much to give.

Where the money goes.

Donations go to Fundacja Ignatianum and are used to support Ignatianum University students and their initiatives.

The Foundation publishes on its website what the funds were spent on. You give as much as you decide and can check where it went.

There are not two separate crises, one environmental and one social. There is one.

The project draws on the integral ecology described by Pope Francis in the encyclical Laudato Si’. Odpowiedź musi łączyć troskę o przyrodę z troską o człowieka.

A bottle we would have thrown away goes back into circulation and becomes support for students. Recycling is the means; community is the goal.

The idea was born in a social communication class at Ignatianum University as a response to the new deposit return system.

Where to find the machine?

Ignatianum University campus, Kraków

ul. Mikołaja Kopernika 26
31-501 Kraków

Wesoła · car park

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  • By the car park exitOpposite the entrance to the courtyard of the Main Building, on the ul. Wesoła side.
  • Open to everyoneAnyone can use the machine, not just the university community.
  • In the city centreClose to the Old Town and the Main Railway Station, on the Ignatianum University campus.

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