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Record rates
Tomra reaches 40 billion milestone
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Sustainability & Circular Economy
Record return rates for resource sustainability company TOMRA. TOMRA have confirmed their 82,000 reverse vending machines (RVMs) have received a record-breaking 40 billion containers back for recycling in the past year. Head of TOMRA Collection Solutions Harald Henriksen says the company and its customers have “40 billion reasons to be extremely proud”.
“We have been waiting to hit the 40 billion mark and we feel an enormous sense of achievement having reached this milestone. Of course, this is a joint effort and we couldn’t have done this without our customers and the hundreds of thousands of recyclers in over 60 markets, who have delivered their beverage containers back to TOMRA reverse vending machines for recycling.”
For every beverage container that is recycled and reused, there is a CO2 emission avoidance when compared to manufacturing bottles from virgin material. 40 billion bottles have a potential CO2 saving of up to 3 million tons – to put this into context this is the equivalent of:
- 394 billion smartphones charged
- 12.2 billion kilometers driven by an average passenger vehicle
- 51 million tree seedlings grown for 10 years
- 1.1 billion liters of oil saved
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