{"id":4222,"date":"2025-08-26T11:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:21:38","slug":"returo-announces-new-record-for-the-drs-system-over-580-million-packages-returned-by-consumers-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/returo-announces-new-record-for-the-drs-system-over-580-million-packages-returned-by-consumers-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"RetuRO announces new record for the DRS system: over 580 million packages returned by consumers in July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RetuRO, the administrator of the Deposit-Return System (DRS), the largest circular economy project in Romania, announces the evolution and results of the program for the period January-July 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, approximately 3 billion DRS packaging has been returned by consumers, and RetuRO has handed over to recyclers a quantity of 215,000 tons of packaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July, over 580 million DRS packaging were collected \u2013 this is the largest quantity since the launch of the system in November 2023 and represents 79% of the quantity placed on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a collection rate of 79% in the first seven months of this year, the DRS continues to support Romania&#8217;s transition to a circular economy, mobilizing millions of Romanians to adopt environmentally responsible behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RetuRO, the administrator of the Deposit-Return System (DRS), the largest circular economy project in Romania, announces the evolution and results of the program for the period January-July 2025. Since the beginning of the year, approximately 3 billion DRS packaging has been returned by consumers, and RetuRO has handed over to recyclers a quantity of 215,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-circular_economy","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainability-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}