In this year-end special, we rewind through an eventful 2025, the year that Reloop turned ten and The Reloop Brief began. Host, Barry Snedden, revisits some of the many standout moments from the season
News Type: Podcast
Jason Wilcox, Reloop’s Data & Dashboard Manager explains the goals of our two live dashboards—What We Waste (quantifying beverage container losses and the impact of DRS) and the Global Deposit Dashboard (a fast, comparable view of deposit system design and performance).
In this episode with Miquel Roset, we discuss how Spain is on the cusp of introducing a national deposit return system by 2026, and what must happen next to deliver on time. We also touch on Portugal’s newly announced DRS start date and why Iberian momentum matters.
At Reloop Unpacks, our EU Green Week, 10th-anniversary event, we asked guests two simple questions: What should the next 10 years look like for circular packaging? And what were your key takeaways?
Shraddha Kumar checks in with Robert Kelman on the latest from Australia: states moving to include wine & spirit bottles in container deposit schemes, Tasmania’s strong early returns and why refund value and retail take-back matter for engagement.
In this special episode of the Reloop Brief, we listen in on the Reloop Unpacks conference held in Brussels in June 2025. Clarissa Morawski moderates a fast-moving panel on how digital and AI tools are reshaping the way we track, sort, and return materials in a circular economy.
In this episode of the Reloop Brief, Barry Snedden checks in with Joe Papineschi, Chairperson of Eunomia Research & Consulting, for an INC-5.2 debrief.
Marian Ledesma from Greenpeace Philippines joins the Reloop Brief to explain how sachets became the default in the Global South, why they’re almost impossible to recycle.
Ahead of INC-5.2, we take a closer look at primary plastic polymer fee with Hugo Schally, retired European Commission official and Oliver Boachie, former special advisor to Ghana’s Ministry of Environment and lead negotiator for the African group.