Bottle Recycling Depot: Bottle Recycling Collection Point Depot
Bottle recycling collection point depots are convenient places to drop off eligible empty beverage containers. These modern depots are designed to be clean and welcoming.
The best-performing container deposit systems achieve up to 99% return rates. These models benefit retailers by increasing footfall and providing financial incentives such as handling fees. For more information about the bottle recycling collection point depot, click here.
Reverse Vending
A key component of bottle deposit systems, reverse vending machines (RVMs) accept empty beverage containers and dispense money or vouchers to consumers. This encourages consumers to recycle and supports environmental programs. It also provides an excellent opportunity to teach the next generation about sustainability and the environment.
RVMs can be located at supermarkets and other retail stores, petrol stations, parks and schools to make it convenient for the public to return their used containers. They can automatically sort beverage containers by material and size, reducing the need for human handling, which improves safety and increases collection rates.
Recycling solutions maximize the value of materials by maintaining their purity and quality so they can be recycled into new bottles and reduce reliance on virgin resources for container production. This helps create a cleaner, greener world and protects our planet’s precious resources for future generations.
Recyclable Containers
Beverage containers that can be returned for a deposit at a bottle recycling collection point depot are part of a container deposit scheme (CDS), an example of product stewardship. Beverage suppliers pay for the CDS and encourage drinking container recycling while reducing litter and promoting reuse. For more information about the bottle recycling collection point depot, click here.
The scheme also helps to keep plastic bottles out of landfills and waterways, where they can pollute. In countries with a CDS, the number of plastic bottles in the environment is significantly lower than in those without one.
Many CDS collection points accept a wide range of other recyclables, making them a one-stop shop for recycling. Check out RecyclingNearYou to find your closest return station.
Corvallis residents can recycle glass in their curbside bins, except mirrors and window glass, which belong in the yard waste and mixed organics carts. Look for the How2Recycle Store Drop-Off label or the resin identification code to know whether a package is recyclable in your community.
Deposit Refunds
In Aotearoa, New Zealand, we drink from over two billion glass, plastic and metal beverage containers yearly. But many end up in landfills and unused stockpiles or polluting streets, parks, rivers, beaches and oceans. Container-deposit legislation (or bottle bill) aims to reduce this pollution by including a refundable deposit on refillable and non-refillable beverage containers collected for recycling.
TOMRA has extensive experience in markets with different container deposit schemes, with and without retailer participation. Our research shows that “pure” return-to-retail DRS models achieve impressive recycling results, with 98% of bottles returned and 99% of cans.
TOMRA operates over 50 collection points, including depots and Drop’n’Go sites, where you can earn refunds on eligible bottles and cans. Most containers between 150ml and 3 litres are eligible for a refund when you bring them to a container deposit scheme collection point. See our Container Guide for more details. Bag drops are also available in select locations as a contactless and queue-free way to cash in your containers, perfect for large loads. For more information about the bottle recycling collection point depot, click here.
Clean Loop
A few of the world’s biggest consumer goods companies are trying to limit future waste by reinventing recycling. This week, they announced Clean Loop, a system allowing consumers to order products from their favourite brands in reusable packaging. Then, when they’re empty, the company will collect and refill those containers. The open packages can be returned for a refund. It’s the 21st-century version of the milkman, and it could make a big difference.
Coca-Cola is involved in local partnerships that empower communities with information, resources and technology for proper waste segregation. This ensures that bottles are sorted and recycled correctly rather than downcycled into low-value uses like polyester lining for sleeping bags or quilted jackets.
The program will initially be an e-commerce play, with about 300 products available in reusable packaging. Consumers will pay a deposit, and even banged-up containers earn back their promise.