
Digital DRS
Revolutionize packaging collection with a cost-effective, digital and cryptosecure Deposit Refund System
Use existing infrastructure

All packaging materials

Track whole value chain

Revolutionize the packaging recycling sector by introducing a new universal and secure Deposit Refund System (DRS) concept: the Digital DRS (DDRS). Increase recovery rates in a simpler, transparent, secure and widely adoptable way by digitally incentivizing citizens for their recycling actions.
Candam and its partners are shaping the most complete DDRS in the world: from the serialization and digitalization of packaging with unique QR codes, the traceability through the whole value chain possible with blockchain and data storage in the cloud, to the IoT smart bins with the ultimate technology to validate who has returned what and where to provide the deposit back to the citizen.
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Digital platform
It is here where all the serialized codes are managed to digitize packaging items, trace them along production, retail, consumption and recycling, and obtain valuable insights from the data.

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Citizen app
Citizen app’s e-wallet consists of an Online Transaction System, which provides the cashback to citizens for their proper recycling by means of secure encryption with blockchain.

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RecySmart device converts any waste bin into a cost–effective Reverse Vending Machine. It is ideal to massively deploy over the existing infrastructure for a trustable and a user-friendly Digital DRS.


The unique cost-effective device able to identify unmistakeably all type of packaging waste
Main technology
Universal Scanning: our patented system able to read all type of codes (barcode, QR, Data Matix, and more)
Intelligent Waste Characterization: our patented system to recognize packaging in real-time (plastic, metal, carton briks & glass) serves for double verification
Additional modules
- Access Control Lid
- Filling Level Sensor
- Solar Compactor
- Adaptable to all bins
- Remote configuration
- Customize your brand
- Resistant to adverse conditions (IP67)
- Antivandal design

Creating the Global Standard
The DDRS Alliance is a non-profit collaboration of the world’s leading industry and technology organisations that are working together to build and validate a Global Standard for a Digital DRS with an open and fully-scalable system suitable for any multi-stakeholder environment. Digital DRS (Digital Deposit Return Scheme) is a new approach to Deposit Return Schemes, enabled through digital tracking of consumer products. It promises improved DRS performance to help step-change circular economies at significantly lower cost and carbon footprint.