An amendment to the Deposit Law on Beverage Containers was approved by Israel's Knesset (parliament) in second and third reading on February 2, 2010 and came into effect on February 9, 2010.. 

The main changes include:

1. Imposing direct responsibility for collection on producers and importers: to facilitate compliance with more ambitious collection targets, in keeping with the "polluter pays" principle.
2. Obligating collection and recycling of all beverage containers: to cover large beverage containers, in addition to the small containers which are covered by the law today..
3. Widening the obligation to receive empty containers at sales points: to require marketing chains to receive up to 50 containers per person every day, whereas today, some shops refuse to accept such containers.
4. Canceling the possibility for reducing annual recycling targets: to stop the current practice where an application for retroactive exemption from recycling targets is submitted.

The amended law includes the following features:>

• Deposit of 30 agorot on small containers and a collection target of 77% - some 490 million containers a year, compared to 420 containers that are collected at present.
• Direct fines on producers and importers for non-compliance with collection and recycling targets.
• Producer responsibility, rather than consumer responsibility, for collection, leading to an 11% increase in collection targets (from 66% today to 77%). Each year, manufacturers will invest 16 million more shekels to increase the target (based on calculation whereby a 1% addition in collection translates to1.6 million shekels).
• As of 2013, setting of an obligatory collection target of 50% for large containers without a deposit - some 370 million beverage containers, compared to 130 million containers which are collected today.
• Imposition of a deposit on large containers in case of non-compliance with the collection target of 50%.

 Advantages of the new law:

• Direct imposition of producer responsibility and increased  producer involvement in recycling.
• Public participation and implementation of separation of waste at source (a collection point for every 400 people, on average)
• Increase in the scope of recycling, leading to savings in collection and landfilling volume.
• Consensus building and development of a model for the treatment of packaging waste in Israel.

Additional activities under the responsibility and financing of producers, outside the framework of the law:

• Addition of 12,000 bottle collection cages throughout the country (in addition to the 8,000 now in existence).
• Investment of 4 million shekels per year in educational and information activities on recycling and cleanliness.