Iran Deposit Refund System Pilot Project for Beverage Containers - 2024 - 2025

The dataset is the result of the first-ever deposit refund system (DRS) pilot project conducted in Iran, including the accurate daily intake of containers by the Reverse Vending Machine in the project, the number of existing and new users and the number of fulfilled recycling cycle (session) per day. The pilot was performed in Iran University of Science and Technology central campus in Tehran for total 12 months and evaluated the effectiveness of different incentive mechanisms for beverage container recycling. The study compared three approaches using in-house labeling of the single use beverage containers and a barcode-tracking system: reward-based recycling, voluntary recycling, and deposit-based recycling. Results demonstrated that the deposit-based system significantly outperformed other methods.