Articles
- https://www.foodtimes.eu/food-system/deposit-return-scheme-danish-excellence-in-beverage-packaging-recycling/#:~:text=uncertainty%2C
- https://stateofgreen.com/en/news/danish-deposit-system-reaches-full-economic-circularity/#:~:text=25
- high price for quality recycled material helps fund Dansk Retursystem
- expenses to run the system (sorting, transport, infrastructure) was fully paid by the system’s income (from selling scrap materials)
- https://www.foodtimes.eu/planet/danish-deposit-system-excellence/#:~:text=Related post-,A successful circular system,impressive 234%2C000 tonnes of CO₂.
- 93% return rate
- b/c the recycled materials are sold for so much (esp aluminium) producers didn’t have to help fund DR system with the typical EPR contribution
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1FgsfKgy6c
- **https://youtu.be/RT37O3unrD8**
- https://www.endplasticwaste.org/what-we-do/projects/aim-holy-grail-digital-watermarking
- companies are already piloting it. Consumers can scan to correctly recycle, MRF can use to properly recycle and track recycling stats (helpful for EPR)
- HolyGrail 2.0 was the pilot for digital watermarks
- Q: has US gotten involved
- https://www.bottlebill.org/index.php/about-bottle-bills/the-fate-of-unclaimed-or-abandoned-deposits
- US struggles with return rates, but typically the systems are run on a state level in collaboration with environmental govt branches.
- higher deposits and more dropoffs are associated with higher return rates
- Unclaimed deposits will go back to state fund, or to enviro funds, sometimes bottle distributors
- bev companies challenges bottle bills for ‘taking their $” (unclaimed deposits), didn’t hold up in court
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1llmrgw/pantsystem_return_machines/
- Pant sorting system at stores is not perfect - machines aren’y always on, one bottle at a time can be slow
- https://epr.sustainablepackaging.org/
- EPR = financial and/or operational responsibility of proucers for end of life of products
- Producer Responsibility Org (PRO) is helped by producers (paying the PRO), PRO is typically a ngo
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