How producer fees are structured, what they fund, and why keeping costs with producers (not consumers) reflects best practice system design.
Subject: Deposit Return
An overview of the UK Deposit Return Scheme (DRS).
Recording of the Alliance members’ webinar looking at digital deposit return systems (DDRS).
The document describes the policy process to date in New Zealand for the implementation of a Container Return Scheme.
Building on our 2021 fact sheet, this analysis reviews 45+ studies from the past 20 years across 20+ regions to offer an updated, comprehensive overview of how deposit return systems can provide economic benefits to municipal authorities.
French translation of companion fact sheet ‘Before and after: How deposit systems cut beverage container litter’.
Reloop’s CEO, Clarissa Morawski, sets out how deposit return systems (DRS) are the global trend and why Ontario should modernise and expand, not repeal.
Over 200 opinion polls conducted between 2003 and 2025 consistently report high levels of support for new, existing, and expanded deposit systems.
Updated findings from over 200 opinion polls from 2003 and 2025 consistently reporting high levels of support for new, existing, and expanded deposit systems.