Deposit management organisation DMO
A Deposit Management Organisation (DMO) relates to Deposit Return Schemes (DRS) which are circular ecomomy approaches to what might be considered as waste products, whereby a financial incentive is offered to return certain products after use to a central collection point, referred to as a reverse vending machine. Often the products are empty containers or so called single-use glass, metal and plastic products, which can be either washed, relabelled and reused or recycled.
A Deposit Management Organisation (DMO) will usually;
- set the deposit amount, the producer registration fees and payments to return point hosts
- provide detailed guidance to help businesses in the drinks supply chain prepare for the DRS
- inform consumers about the scheme
- handle queries
- be responsible for meeting the scheme’s collection targets
- arrange collection and recycling of in-scope materials
- make collected material available to producers for purchase
DRSs are employed in over 50 countries worldwide as a common-sense means of encouraging people to recycle more single-use bottles and cans. Existing schemes may employ a member of staff to collect the items or have a have an automated deposit machine (ADM), also called a reverse vending machine at their local supermarket. ADMs read the bar code of the plastic or glass bottle / jar or metal can that will be recycled, calculate a return amount per item (usually a few cents or pence) for returning the container. The total amount is then printed to a ticket, which can be spent at the supermarket for a cash equivalent or in some cases paid in cash to the customer, the system has a number of advantages over household collection schemes including the possibility for products to be tracked, washed, relabelled and reused.
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- Disposal.
- Eliminating waste at scale – opportunities for blockchain.
- Fly-tipping.
- Government steps towards a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and cans.
- Hazardous waste.
- Household waste.
- Industrial waste.
- Landfill tax.
- London plan.
- Our waste, our resources: a strategy for England.
- Recycling.
- The Circular Economy Task Force.
- Site waste management plan.
- Waste and Resources Action Programme WRAP.
- Waste management - explained.
- Waste management process.
- Waste.
- Wishcycling.
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