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The 2025 Beer Store Annual Stewardship Report, "Adapting Sustainability to an Evolving Landscape", provides a snapshot of our commitment to people in Ontario, industry, and the environment by sharing details on The Beer Store’s Deposit Return System for beer containers and the Ontario Deposit Return Program (ODRP) for non Beer Store listed beer, wine, spirit, and cooler containers. All of these are sold with a 10-cent or 20-cent deposit, which is fully refundable when the container is returned to a TBS retail store or any of our authorized collection partners in Ontario. To find an Empty Return location near you, please visit: https://www.thebeerstore.ca/where-to-return-empties
Highlights of our performance in 2025:
Approximately 1.6 billion alcohol containers were collected from Ontario consumers in 2025, including approximately 1.1 billion Beer Store containers and just under 464 million ODRP containers.
Accepted back more containers for reuse or recycling than were sold in our system in 2025.
In 2025, 171,231 tonnes of material was collected by The Beer Store. The estimated avoided emissions of reusing or recycling this material instead of landfilling is equal to about 190,981 metric tonnes of CO2. This is equivalent to taking approximately 44K cars off of the road for an entire year!
