Natural Mineral Waters Europe (NMWE) and UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe have presented the DRS Playbook, which sets out to be a practical guide to building new and effective Deposit Return Schemes across Europe. The ‘DRS Playbook: Everything you need to know about developing, financing and operating Deposit Return Schemes’, is designed to support the implementation of effective Deposit Return Schemes (DRS) across Europe. When designed and implemented well, DRS can significantly improve the quality and quantity of beverage packaging recycling. This is an important step in our own circularity actions and helping the industry to accelerate progress toward a circular economy for beverage packaging’, adds Nicholas Hodac, Director General of UNESDA. In other news, Portugal announced this spring that it is set to launch its national Deposit Return Scheme for single-use beverage packaging in 2026, with non-profit SDR Portugal as scheme administrator and waste management company Sensoneo as IT solution provider.