As policymakers and brand owners alike consider how to reduce plastic pollution, recover and reuse more containers, and generally move towards a “circular economy", deposit return systems are being evaluated as a policy tool for their ability to significantly raise beverage container recycling rates.
TOMRA has over 45 years’ experience innovating and managing deposit return systems in 40 markets. Among the variety of deposit systems are success stories where the objectives and needs of multiple stakeholders are met. By identifying and sharing the framework commonly used to design deposit return policy and systems, this 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.
In "Rewarding Recycling: Learnings from the World's Highest-Performing Deposit Return Systems", TOMRA discusses:
- What effective deposit return systems deliver
- The four key principles and twelve elements high-performing deposit return systems share
- Dozens of case studies on real-world implementation of deposit return policy
TOMRA will provide insight into the success factors for high-performing deposit return systems in a series of quarterly webinars. Join our next webinar, "Rewarding Recycling: Exploring how convenience leads to high-performing deposit return systems", on Thursday 30 September at 9am US EST / 3pm CET. (You can also view the previous webinar in the series on best practices, which provides an executive summary of the "Rewarding Recycling" white paper.) Please get in touch if you would like to discuss the white paper further.
Discover the 12 elements of the leading deposit return systems: