This factsheet provides an overview of how fraud can occur in Deposit Return Systems along with methods to help detect and mitigate it.
These solutions are drawn from international experiences in both North America and Europe, where system operators and/or regulators improved the integrity of their systems and as a result, directly impacted their bottom lines.
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