The Solution is Less Pollution

BCRS Malta Ltd. was incorporated by the Malta Beverage Producers Association, the Malta Beverage Importers Association and the Malta Beverage Retailers Association with the obligation, amongst others, to assume the collective extended producer responsibility on behalf of producers, importers and retailers of single-use beverage containers, and to take the necessary measures to achieve beverage container collection targets in terms of the Beverage Containers Recycling Regulations 2020.

BCRS Malta was granted a licence by Circular Economy Malta to establish and operate the national beverage container refund system and to take responsibility for all collected single-use beverage containers.

BCRS Malta is investing in privately funded infrastructure to operate the national beverage container refund scheme. Investments include the construction and setting up of the first privately funded Clearing Centre and sorting plant in Malta dedicated to beverage container waste, a network of Reverse Vending Machines around the Maltese islands — a first of its kind for Malta, powered by state-of-the-art engineering and IT technologies connected through IoT — and a roll-out of monitoring systems underpinning the operation of the scheme.