The number of packages returned by consumers through the Guarantee-Return System (SGR), from the beginning of the year to the present, was 1.06 billion, according to data from the SGR administrator, RetuRo, published on Tuesday.

„Since the beginning of the year, 1.06 billion packages have been returned by consumers, and RetuRO has handed over 83,000 tons of packages to recyclers. In March alone, almost 384 million SGR packages were collected, representing 75% of the quantity placed on the market,” a company press release reads.

RetuRO Sistem Garantie Returnare S.A. is a company operating on the „non-profit” principle, created by a consortium of three private shareholders: the Romanian Brewers’ Association for the Environment (30%), the Soft Drinks Producers’ Association for Sustainability (30%) and the Retailers’ Association for the Environment (20%) and a public shareholder, the Romanian state, through the central environmental authority, the Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests (20%).

The company operates with exclusively private funding and has the role of ensuring transparency on the quantities of beverage packaging placed on the market and returned by consumers, contributing to the sustainable development of Romania, through the responsible management of packaging waste, in order to achieve the recycling targets imposed on Romania by the European Union.

AGERPRES