Recycling impact

Think about it: how many recyclable items do you personally come in contact with each day? Worldwide, more than 800 billion beverage bottles and cans alone are manufactured and sold each year. Add to that the billions of containers used for milk, juice, food, detergent and other consumer products, and one can see that the universe of packaging material consumed worldwide is truly enormous.

Packaging material is often manufactured from attractive and valuable materials such as plastics (which is made from oil), aluminium, steel, glass or paper and cardboard. And while all these materials are recyclable, the unfortunate fact is that most of these materials are still being sent to landfills or worse yet end up as litter in the environment.

TOMRA's business is to help develop, implement and operate effective and efficient systems capable of recovering the resource- and monetary value of packaging and other used materials. Each year systems provided by TOMRA collect and recycle about 26 billion used beverage containers, about three percent of the world's annual consumption. It is estimated that the used beverage container material which is collected and handled through TOMRA's products and operations during one year saves more than 1.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

About TOMRA

TOMRA's operations are organized into four business segments: Collection Technology, Materials Handling, Collection Technology Non-Deposit Solutions, and Industrial Processing Technology. The first two segments include TOMRA's activities in markets with deposit on beverage containers, while the latter two focus on the collection and processing of non-deposit materials.

TOMRA's principal product groups include reverse vending systems, automated material collection centers, material transport and processing, waste recognition and sorting systems for recycling, and material compaction and baling equipment.

In pursuing its mission of Helping the world recycle, TOMRA maintains a strong commitment throughout the organization to ensuring that its activities contribute positively to society and the environment. This commitment is reflected by the fact that TOMRA is listed on all major sustainability ratings, including the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. TOMRA is publicly-held company listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker TOM).