\u201cDuring the period January 1\u2013October 1, 2025, the indicated amount was RON 1,125,859,520. In total, these amounts reached RON 5,055,420,257, or almost EUR 1 billion,\u201d reads the analysis signed by Adrian Teamp\u0103u, Director of Environmental Taxes and Circular Economy, and Anca Andrei-Cimbru, Manager of Environmental Taxes and Circular Economy at Deloitte Romania.<\/p>\n
The authors highlighted the scale of the problem facing Romania\u2019s collection and recycling system, noting that every kilogram of plastic packaging waste that remains unrecycled affects the calculation of the national contribution and, implicitly, increases pressure on the public budget.<\/p>\n
Since January 1, 2021, EU member states have paid a contribution to the EU budget calculated on the basis of the quantity of unrecycled plastic packaging waste, at a uniform rate of EUR 0.80 per kilogram, with adjustment mechanisms for certain member states.<\/p>\n
On the positive side, Romania has established a functioning deposit-return system for beverage containers, including most PET bottles sold through modern retail outlets.<\/p>\n
RetuRO, the administrator of the Deposit-Return System (SGR), Romania\u2019s largest circular economy project, has reported the system\u2019s performance over the first nine months of 2026.<\/p>\n
Between January and September 2026, Romanians returned more than 4.1 billion containers through the system, while the collection rate reached 85%. This was approximately three percentage points above the 82% recorded over the same period last year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cDuring the period January 1\u2013October 1, 2025, the indicated amount was RON 1,125,859,520. In total, these amounts reached RON 5,055,420,257, or almost EUR 1 billion,\u201d reads the analysis signed by Adrian Teamp\u0103u, Director of Environmental Taxes and Circular Economy, and Anca Andrei-Cimbru, Manager of Environmental Taxes and Circular Economy at Deloitte Romania. The authors highlighted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}