The new center will manage and process the beverage packages collected from merchants and will serve mainly the southern part of the country.
With a surface area of roughly 6,000 square meters, the new center in Dolj County has an annual counting capacity of approximately 280 million DRS packages and a sorting and processing capacity by types of materials (PET, metal, glass) of over 820 million SRS packages.
During the 8-month period since its launch, the Deposit Return System has evolved and developed constantly. Preliminary data show that In July 2024 consumers returned 470 million DRS million packages, 35% more than in June 2024. Overall, 3.5 billion DRS packages were put on the market by producers in the 8-month interval, of which over 1.3 de billion were returned by consumers. A total of 75,000 tons of materials, accounting for roughly 83% of the amount of packages collected, were directed towards recycling units.