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Drink up! Beverage container recycling update

May 7, 2019 By CMC

The ninth edition of CM Consulting’s Who Pays What report was released in October 2018. Produced since 2002, the report provides a comprehensive overview of container recovery programs in each province, including the latest data on performance and costs. The report also delves into the economic and environmental benefits of beverage container reuse and recycling, processes, end-markets, […]

Dispatches from Europe: Are we ready for reusable packaging?

June 20, 2017 By CMC

20 June 2017 – Single-use packaging is easy to spot. A short walk along a beach, anywhere in the world, will reveal the consequences of our throwaway culture as each tide brings in a fresh layer of debris, most of it single-use plastics. In some countries, the growing pressure to do something about single-use packaging has […]

Deposit Return: How it Works

June 19, 2017 By CMC

If we look internationally—Europe, US, Canada, Middle East, China, and Australia—massive efforts are underway to introduce or expand existing programs, as governments recognize deposit-return as a modern solution to litter caused by single-use bottles and cans as well as far superior recycling rates. New laws have received much public support, and most respondents to public […]

Making the Switch: The Business Case for Reusable Packaging

November 26, 2016 By CMC

With growing environmental awareness worldwide and ever rising shipping costs, an increasing number of businesses are exploring ways to reduce their transport packaging. One solution for achieving this objective is to make the switch to reusables. We wanted to learn more about how companies in Europe and beyond are benefitting from reusable transport packaging, and […]

Policy Instruments to Promote Refillable Beverage Containers

July 19, 2016 By CMC

19 July 2016 – Refillable beverage containers have an important role to play in the circular economy. Aside from the environmental benefits, refillable systems offer tremendous economic benefits in terms of material cost savings and job creation, which are multiplied with each refill. Despite these benefits, the market share of beverages in refillable packaging has […]

Reloop launched

April 27, 2015 By CMC

March 25th marked the official launch of Reloop, the first pan-euro organization specifically focused on issues relating to waste prevention, reduction, and recycling that represents industry, government, and environmental organizations at the European Union level. Founded by like-minded interests who share a common vision for a circular economy, Reloop aims to work as a platform for advances in policy that […]

New Study on Reuse and Recycling Systems for Selected Beverage Packaging from a Sustainability Perpsective

October 20, 2011 By CMC

A study just released by PricewaterhouseCoopers AG WPG in Germany assesses the existing systems for collecting and recycling beverage containers in Germany from a social, economic, and ecological viewpoint. It shows that for beverage containers, deposit-return systems are preferable to green-dot systems (industry-financed curbside collection) in that deposit-return systems acheive higher collection rates, create more jobs, […]

RVM: Reverse Vending Machines — Beverage Container Recycling (2009)

April 14, 2009 By CMC

Reverse Vending Machines

Reverse vending machines arrive… at last! “The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself,” wrote Marshall McLuhan. Today we don’t think twice about using a bank machine, automated parking attendant, airport check-in, and self check-out at retail stores. So, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that machines designed for empty bottle […]

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Dispatches from Europe: A Step to Stem the Plastic Tide

October 31, 2018

Single-use plastics are everywhere, with most of us regularly relying on the convenience … [Read More...] about Dispatches from Europe: A Step to Stem the Plastic Tide

Who Pays What Report 2018

Who Pays What 2018 Now Available

October 5, 2018

5 October 2018 - CM Consulting is pleased to announce the release of the 2018 Who Pays … [Read More...] about Who Pays What 2018 Now Available

Deposit Return: How it Works

June 19, 2017

If we look internationally—Europe, US, Canada, Middle East, China, and Australia—massive … [Read More...] about Deposit Return: How it Works

CM Consulting Releases Global Overview of Deposit Return Systems

May 25, 2017

Press Release 31 May 2017 - As the problem of marine litter has steadily grown worse, … [Read More...] about CM Consulting Releases Global Overview of Deposit Return Systems

Is Access Everything?

February 7, 2017

7 February 2017 - "If you build it, they will come." Over the years, this classic line … [Read More...] about Is Access Everything?

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Global Deposit Book

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Do We Need Deposit Return?

https://youtu.be/-lT6r7vMtxI

Opposition to Deposit Return

https://youtu.be/IEbkgZi061g

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