The unit will be set up in a logistics space with an area of approximately 4,400 square meters inside the Global Vision industrial park, where counting and sorting of beverage containers collected from retailers will be carried out.

The construction and setting up of RetuRO small industrial plant in Timiș County will be completed in February, 2024. The sorting and counting equipemnet will be supplied and installed by Denmark's Anker Andersen A/S. RetuRO signed with Anker Andersen A/S a turnkey equipment purchase agreement for all regional centers, which will be gradually opened by autumn next year, simultaneously with the increase in the volume of beverage containers made available on the market by producers, returned by consumers and collected by retailers.

The centre in Giarmata will manage beverage containers collected both manually and automatically from almost 80,000 retailers nationwide. Glass containers will be counted, shattered and prepared for recycling. In addition, bales from regional counting centers will be brought here, and will undergo an optical sorting process.

Metal containers (aluminum and steel) and plastic containers will be counted, sorted and compacted to be sent to recycling companies.

"Setting up the second small industrial plant in Giarmata represents another significant step in achieving our vision for a cleaner Romania. With the preparation of these industrial plants, we also started an important component of our development plan - the recruitment campaign for all 17 regional industrial centers. We have a very ambitious goal - about 600 employees, of which at least 500 will be part of these plants across the country. We remain committed to turning recyclable resources into an engine of positive change, and with every containers counted, sorted and recycled we contribute to a cleaner environment and a better future for all", says Gemma Webb, RetuRO CEO and President of the Executive Board.

The Deposit Return System will operate in Romania with 17 small industrial plants, where RetuRO, as DRS administrator, will transport the beverage containers collected from the approximately 80,000 retailers. These will be counted and sorted to be transported to recycling companies to produce recycled raw material, which will be used in the production of new beverage containers.

RetuRO Return Guarantee System S.A. ( www.returoDRS.ro ) is a company operating on a not-for-profit basis – which means that any profit made by the company from the collection of beverage containers will be reinvested, exclusively, in the development of DRS. The company was created by a consortium of three private shareholders: the Brewers of Romania Association for the Environment (30%), the Association of Soft Drinks Producers for Sustainability (30%) and the Association of Retailers for the Environment (20%) and a public shareholder, the Romanian state, through the central environmental authority, the Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests (20%).

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