TOMRA Systems ASA (Asker, Norway; Oslo Børs listed) is the world’s leading reverse-vending and sensor-based sorting technology company. It opened its Portuguese office in Ericeira in 2022 and is the named technology partner behind Portugal’s national deposit return scheme (DRS) launched on 10 April 2026 — supplying over 2,500 automated reverse-vending machines nationwide, including in the Azores and Madeira.
TOMRA Collection’s Portuguese arm operates from an office in Ericeira on the western Atlantic coast. Since the April 2026 nationwide rollout of Portugal’s deposit return scheme — covering PET plastic bottles and metal cans up to 3 litres marked with the official “volta” symbol, with a €0.10 deposit refunded on return — TOMRA has been the named technology supplier behind the more than 2,500 automated reverse-vending machines that constitute the backbone of the scheme’s collection network. The system extends to the autonomous regions of the Azores and Madeira from launch day.
In parallel, TOMRA has partnered with the Lisbon municipality on a city-wide reusable-cup return programme. The first TOMRA-operated return points went live on 26 June 2026 in iconic Lisbon kiosques (quiosques) at Praça de São Paulo and Praça do Príncipe Real, allowing customers buying drinks from participating venues to drop reusable cups directly into a TOMRA collection unit.
Portugal is one of the last large EU member states to operationalise a national deposit-return system, and the Norwegian-engineered TOMRA platform is now the visible interface for Portuguese consumers interacting with circular-economy infrastructure every day. For the corridor, it is the most consumer-facing example of Nordic green-technology landing inside Portuguese daily life — sitting alongside ABB, Vestas, Boliden and CIP/MadoquaPower2X as the operational layer of the Iberian decarbonisation thesis.
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