Reverse vending firm rides EU plastics crackdown to €90m turnover – but not everyone is happy

Niklas Engström, CEO of RVM Systems. Photo: press.
29 sep. 2025
07:00
RVM Systems, the Swedish reverse vending specialist, has quietly doubled its revenues to just over €90m – landing second place in Impact Loop’s latest ranking of the country’s fastest-growing impact companies.

But not everyone wants to see the company succeed.

RVM Systems makes the machines and software that underpin bottle and can deposit systems across Europe.

For years, growth was sluggish. After Germany rolled out its nationwide deposit scheme in 2003, few other markets followed.

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