The reverse vending machines will accept both plastic PET drinks bottles and aluminium cans. For every unit deposited a customer will receive a €0.10 voucher in return with a maximum voucher limit of €2.
Currently only Lidl in Glenageary will accept empty cans and bottles
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2021/0903/1244522-lidls-deposit-return-scheme/
Kids will pick up the bottles and bring them. Or when you go to Lidl yo do your shopping just bring , don’t go just to bring them.
i was in Santiago Chile 12 years ago, a very larger beer bottle in a shop was a roughly bout 0.75C and there was a 50C security bottle one each single bottle. Generous tourist used to donate the emptys them to the homeless and everyone was happy. Zero waste.
The key point being missed is here is not recycling, per se, its the littering of the countryside.
My wife, a German, walks through our estate most evenings, and brings a plastic bag and a "picker-upper". She gathers loads of plastic bottles, every day.
In Germany, you are charged 25c extra for these bottles and you get 25c back when you return them. People don't litter there because they know that they are throwing away 25c if they do. It'll be an interesting experiment to see if Irish people might be "tricked" into caring about the environment, because the litter I see shows that they don't currently.
itll cost more in time to wait for it to reverse vend a plastic bottle, wait for each one to be approved and not spat out again, and for a maximum of 2€ voucher ha!
not sure how driving to a lidl to recycle 20 bottles is better for the environment than putting it in your green bin at home
Growing up, it was a nice steady income as a kid. Clearing the storage and getting money for it.
"It is anticipated that when the national scheme is fully operational a deposit in the region of 20 cents will be added to the cost of all beverages sold in cans and plastic bottles nationwide." 🙄
I remember getting money for bottles in dunnes in cornelscourt in the 80s, I was only a kid so cannot remember the details.
I bring all my cans to the bottle bans already, I can empty a big bag really quickly. I am guessing this machine will take several seconds for each one. I imagine it will be getting full quickly so you will not only have queues but people having to bring big sacks of stuff back home again. I know there is a limit so people might not bring huge bags just yet, but when this ridiculous scheme comes into law they will.
They should be encouraging reUSE of bottles anyway.
this will more than likely mean an increase prices of canned and bottled goods and hassle for those of us that already recycle getting deposits back😫
If this kicks off the cost of your recycling bin will increase. Taking some of the most valuable products from the stream will mean paying more to recycle the rest of your waste.
How much of our PET and aluminium wasn't getting recycled that will improve this? The people who correctly disposed of rubbish will continue and the people who didn't still won't.
In Germany years ago I saw the homeless searching bins for bottles to get the deposit back on. It'll start happening here but a lot of Irish people aren't tidy so while the German bins where left tidy I doubt ours will be.
A sting in the tail of the Scottish rollout of these.
"Users are rewarded with shopping vouchers worth 10p for each undamaged empty plastic or glass bottle or aluminium can originally bought in Lidl. "
I very much doubt the people working the store will have anything to do with clearing out or maintaining these machines.
Maybe people wont leave bags of bottles after them at full machines like they do at bins and bottle banks, they'd hate to see someone else profit from their bottles.
Not many Irish working in Lidl so it might be ok, in saying that the coffee machines are always out of order
It's an arse if you're miles from a Lidl as I am.
I can see these things being choc a block with bottles and not being cleared out in a timely way as per usual Irish style.
Yeah we go to Germany pre covid and my brother in law drops over a crate of beer to the place we rent the first year I had them in the rental car empty asking where the bottle bank was
oh how he laughed!!
It would be much better to see glass bottles accepted.
I would say in a year I would only discard circa 2.5-3% of my aluminium can or PET bottles, mainly if I wasn't at home and had to put them in a standard bin. Having a levy on them where I would have to bring them all to a shop would be a complete pain in the hole and waste of my time for a problem which simply isn't there. Additionally retail spacing in shops would need to be dedicated to this.
I heard this being discussed in the uk -
The downside was that a very large chunk of government funding was gonna go towards setting up / running the scheme -
For 2 products that are largely recycled already ....
And economic to do so ..
Wow that's cool, hope it's a success and gets rolled out everywhere
Was doing this in Belgium 25 years ago.
Buy a crate of beer bottles, return them all and get partial refund
