EU Member States adopt the Single Use Plastic Directive

By July of this year, EU Member States should adopt the Single Use Plastic Directive, the objective of which is to reduce harmful impact of the certain single-use plastic products on the environment. How to implement the enhanced Extended Producers’ Responsibility and how much will producers pay for the litter clean up? What measures are feasible? Can the consumers…

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Reloop hosts webinar on best practices for national circular economy

On April 27, 2020, the Reloop Platform organized a webinar to present best practices from around the world in the implementation of national circular economy models for beverage containers. Sweden’s deposit system is the oldest European scheme for one-way beverage packaging and has not only contributed to high collection rates and high quality recycling but…

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7th European REUSE Conference

Brussels • September 2019 On September 24th, Reloop – in association with the European Association of Beverage Wholesalers (CEGROBB), the Environmental Action Germany (Deutsche Umwelthifle e.V.), and the Association of Small and Independent Breweries in Europe (S.I.B.) – hosted the 7th European REUSE Conference. The aim of the conference was to examine how reuse systems…

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1st European Conference on Deposit Systems

Lithuania, Norway • November 2018 Hosted by Reloop Platform in cooperation with Užstato Sistemos Administratorius (USAD – operator of Lithuania’s deposit system) and INFINITUM (system operator from Norway), the 1st European Conference on Deposit Return Systems took place from 20-22 November 2018. The conference, which provided an opportunity to learn about best practice examples in the implementation…

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