DRS in Ireland has registered significant success in its first year, according to smart waste management company Sensoneo. Ireland’s DRS IT system provider says that as of this April, the scheme established 3,200 active collection points, 9,886 registered products, and 1.2 billion collected containers through reverse vending machines (RVMs). According to the data, out of the 3,200 collection points, over 2,600 were equipped with RVMs and 600 with manual collection.