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There are three potential advantages of a DRS: it reduces illegal dumping by giving a financial incentive, it makes monitoring and enforcement easier, and evading the costs is difficult.
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While most commonly used with beverage containers, DRS can be used on other materials including liquid and gaseous wastes. A DRS is used on products such as batteries,
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A container deposit refund facility in Melbourne Australia
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DRS can be either voluntary or mandated by legislation.
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Surcharge refunded when part of a product is returned
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container deposit legislation
reusable packaging
market-based instrument
externalities
pigovian tax
tyres
automotive oil
consumer electronics
pallets
Extended Producer Responsibility
Container-deposit legislation
Circular economy
Environmental economics
Oregon Bottle Bill
Product stewardship
Reverse vending machine
Waste management


"Deposit-Refund Systems in Practice and Theory"
the original
"Two Generalizations of a Deposit-Refund System"
American Economic Review
doi
10.1257/aer.90.2.238
"Managing Used Lead Acid Batteries in India: Evaluation of EPR-DRS Approaches"
doi
10.5696/i2156-9614-5-8.52
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