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    With an investment of over 150 million euros, CanPack Romania runs the Bucharest factory producing approx. two billion aluminum cans annually

    Mircea Fechet, Minister of Environment, Waters and Forests recently visited CanPack Romania, the only aluminum can manufacturer in the country and the second largest factory in Europe. With an investment of over 150 million euros, the Bucharest factory produces approximately two billion aluminum cans annually,...

    Clean Recycle expects 10 percent growth in packaging waste collection for 2025

    Clean Recycle, one of the leading players in the local packaging responsibility transfer market (OIREP), recorded a turnover of EUR 10 million in 2024, marking an 11 percent increase for non-DRS materials compared to the previous year, and managed 125,000 tons of packaging waste...
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    Rafinor becomes market maker for recycled precious metals in the circular economy

    Romania’s leading precious metal processing company Rafinor becomes market maker for companies operating in...

    Environment Minister: Good start for the DRS system in second year of operation

    Over 340 million packages were returned in January through the Deposit-Return System, and approximately...

    RetuRO: Packaging collection rate reached 69 percent in December 2024

    RetuRO, the administrator of the Deposit-Return System (DRS), the largest circular economy project in...

    RetuRO: Over 3 billion DRS containers returned in the first year after implementation

    RetuRO, the administrator of the Deposit-Return System (DRS), the largest circular economy project in...

    Clean Recycle: Packaging waste recycling targets will increase starting January 2025

    Starting January 1, 2025, Romania's national overall recovery target for packaging waste will increase...

    RetuRO collected over 3 billion containers in the first year of DRS

    RetuRO, the administrator of the Deposit Return System, marks on November 30 one year...

    DN AGRAR opens compost factory following an investment of 1.8 million euros

    DN AGRAR Group, the largest integrated livestock farm in Romania, leader in cow milk...

    Mercedes-Benz opens own recycling factory to close the battery loop

    Mercedes-Benz today opened Europe's first battery recycling plant with an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process making...

    DRS sets new record: over 81 percent containers returned in September

    RetuRO, the administrator of the Deposit-Return System, the largest circular economy project in Romania,...

    Environment Minister Fechet: “We have all the ingredients to transform Romania into a truly circular economy”

    “For so many years, our municipal waste system was, and still is, in so...

    Dorin Mihai, TOMRA: “We are focusing to reduce CO2 emissions from operational transport by 80 percent”

    “Sustainability is at the heart of our business model for more than five decades....

    Radu Pascu, RetuRO: “The deposit-return system will become more mature and next year we have a collection target of 80 percent”

    “We can all already see the impact of the deposit-return system, by reducing the...

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