Everything you need to know about what happens on the ground, so you can invent your own way of doing reuse.
More than 100 machines installed in France
More than 100 Collectors installed in France, in supermarkets and hypermarkets as well as in organic stores.
Four stores, four ways of doing it
Houtaud, near Pontarlier (25)
400items of packaging collected per month
Bidart (64)
400items of packaging collected per month
Mûrs-Érigné (49)
200items of packaging collected per month
Saint-Étienne (42)
600items of packaging collected per month
In their own words
“Emptying the Collector's box […] takes 3 minutes! Reuse […] has helped us reach a different kind of customer, and it raises people's awareness.”
Dina Delion, FMCG department manager, Carrefour Ormesson
1 Collector since September 2024 · operator: Loop
“Reuse is very important for our brand. […] Customers are completely independent, and all we have to do in store is empty the pallet box once it is full.”
Guillaume Angers, store manager, E.Leclerc Angers
1 Collector since November 2024 · operator: Bout à Bout
“It's very simple: we mechanised deposit refunds to speed up the roll-out of deposit return in France.”
Bertrand Swiderski, CSR director, Carrefour France
60 Collectors in Carrefour stores since June 2024 · operators: Go!Réemploi, Loop, Bilboko
“The Keepers' Collector is exactly what we were looking for. It makes returning easier by letting any reusable container be brought back to the same machine, which speeds up adoption by customers.”
Romain Zanna-Bellegarde, sales director and head of Loop France
More than 30 Collectors · reuse operator
“With its large intake chamber, packaging formats are no longer a limit, and we can offer reuse not only in our drinks aisles but also in fresh food and in sweet and savoury groceries.”
Thelma Roy, QHSE project manager, Coopérative U
“It's quite simply the best way to encourage our customers to take up reuse on their own, hassle-free, while guaranteeing safety and hygiene.”
Lucile Douaud, marketing director, E.Leclerc Atlantis
“We chose to work with Bout à Bout because it is a local company from Nantes, and because of its partnership with The Keepers, which builds its machines in Vendée.”
Jenny de Vaucresson, CSR manager, E.Leclerc Pôle Sud, Basse-Goulaine
“In particular, it can collect every type of packaging, from bottles to buckets, and offers a simple, intuitive consumer interface.”
Manon Bessone, manager, (RE)SET
“The quality of the equipment and the online tracking of returns make management clear and reassuring.”
Camille D'Houtaud, reusable container manager, Préval
Who we work with
RetailersThey sell the reusable products and host the machine.
Reuse operatorsBilboko · Bout à Bout · Go!Réemploi · Loop · Petrel · Revera · SoVerre · Yaka. They transport and wash the containers and put them back into circulation.
Producer responsibility organisationsCiteo · Leko. They fund and organise the sector.
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