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Sustainability at TOMRA Collection

Each and every year, TOMRA reverse vending solutions capture more than 48 billion used beverage containers for Clean Loop Recycling and reuse across more than 60 global markets. Through our ambitious strategy, we aim to increase this impact in the coming years, all while transforming our organization in response to new and growing environmental challenges.
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    Approved Science-Based Targets

    TOMRA is the only reverse vending provider with targets approved by the world's leading authority. 
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    Life cycle assessments

    We conduct life cycle assessments (LCAs) on TOMRA products throughout their development.
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    Incentivizing change

    We’ve connected the success of our sustainability transformation to our leaders’ bonuses.
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    We're in this together

    We’re all connected, TOMRA with our suppliers, and you with yours. When we succeed, you do too. 

Reverse vending machines and sustainability

The business landscape is changing, but we don’t see this as a bad thing. We see it as an opportunity. Our strategy is simple: Do more of what we do best, while reducing the negative impacts our operations have on the environment. After more than half a century spent working in resource productivity, striving towards a world without waste, we see that the changes required of us already align with our values. We welcome them!

TOMRA R2 reverse vending machine
Increasing our handprint

More of what we do best

Our "handprint" refers to the positive impact enabled by our products. That's all the used drink containers that TOMRA technology captures for recycling and reuse, each and every year.
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Components from inside a TOMRA T9 reverse vending machines
reducing our footprint

Less environmental impact

Our "footprint" refers to the negative impacts of our business operations. TOMRA is a producer of equipment and machines, and we need to take responsibility for our products, not only during their production, but also during their use and at their end-of-life.
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lifetime impact

Product sustainability starts with design

By conducting life cycle assessments (LCAs) of core products to benchmark environmental emissions and analyze hotspots, we are able to make decisions that target factors like material use and type, power consumption, and transportation. This means we can deliver premium, best-in-class reverse vending solutions with a lower environmental impact across their full lifetime.

Our strategy is simple: Do more of what we do best, while reducing the negative impacts our operations have on the environment.

Christina Ek from TOMRA Collection
Christina Ek Head of Sustainability
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lifetime impact

Service offerings contribute to sustainability

By offering remote service for our products, we can reduce the need for in-person support visits. And when maintenance is a must, our growing fleet of electric service vehicles works to keeping service emissions to a minimum. 

Taking responsibility for retired TOMRA products

Despite the huge positive impact that TOMRA reverse vending machines enable, when those machines reach their end of life, it’s our responsibility to ensure that their disposal leads to as little negative impact as possible.

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SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DESIGN

Recycling waste polymers

When we throw things away, we want them to come right back so that they can be used again, just like a boomerang. In line with this thinking, Project Boomerang is the start of an exciting journey to increase the share of recycled content in TOMRA reverse vending machines (RVMs) and enable material flows to enter circular loops.  
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One way for us to reduce our footprint is to make our products more recyclable when they are retired and to use more recycled material in our products.

Marius Fraurud, Head of TOMRA Collection
Marius Fraurud Head of TOMRA Collection
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A second life

Certified pre-owned TOMRA technology

Sometimes, the most sustainable reverse vending machine is the one that already exists. We've offered refurbished machines to customers in some markets since the early 2000s. Would you be interested in this offering? 
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Transforming our organization to minimize our environmental footprint

TOMRA is a producer of equipment and machines, and we need to take responsibility for our products, not only during their production, but also during their use and at their end-of-life.
Through the Science-Based Targets Initiative, we've made a public commitment to reduce the negative impacts of our operations, each and every year.
We are a purpose-driven company with a climate-aware culture. Our Resource Revolutionaries will continue to play an essential role in our sustainability transformation!