More than 980 million containers have been returned during the first year of the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). Launched on February 1 last year, the scheme reduced the littering of plastic bottles and ...
Backers of a bill to create a refund for the return of all aluminum, glass, or plastic beverage bottles hope so. Senate Bill 5502 would add 10 cents to the sale of all canned and bottled drinks.
Mattawa thinks it’s time to return more bottles. There’s growing support among Ontario municipalities to include non-alcoholic beverage bottles in the provincial Deposit Return Program. Recently, ...
In Nigeria, informal collectors of plastic bottle waste are central to achieving both of these goals. They turn waste into monetary value. Previous research has highlighted the environmental and ...