REWARDING RECYCLING: LEARNINGS FROM THE WORLD’S HIGHEST-PERFORMING DEPOSIT RETURN SYSTEMS

Type
Author
TOMRA
Publication Date
February, 2021
Country
Germany
Other
Norway
Language for original content
Scope

Increasingly more countries consider implementing a deposit return system for single-use beverage containers to address today’s challenges of meeting new waste recovery targets, ending littering and moving towards a circular economy.
TOMRA shares lessons learnt from its 45+ years’ experience innovating and managing deposit return systems globally in a new white paper including:

- What effective deposit return systems deliver
- The four key principles and twelve elements high-performing deposit return systems
- Dozens of case studies on real-world implementation of deposit return policy

TOMRA's white paper seeks to contribute to an educated discussion on recycling best practice – including what can be learned from the past, and what the future may look like.