The new recycling system

This is only a scheme to recycle plastic bottles, cans were included to make it more feasible.

Technology has not moved on to the point that it is less expensive to produce more plastic then it is to recycle certain plastics. Unless you have a link to this technology? Anyway the problem is not the offering of these plastics up for recycling it's the higher chains up that don't bother because they won't or can't.

I must have missed the publicity campaign, 3 or 4 very soft ball short interviews is all I am aware of. Even at that they admitted it was more a littering scheme than a recycling one.

Mmm debating which category of homeless person will be most useful to this scheme is somewhat missing the point imo. A scheme championed by 'middles class' environmentalists designed in a manner whereby ulisising the desperation of homeless people to pick up trash so fair trade champagne can be popped when the critical 90% kpi is reached takes the gloss off, again imho

+1 Just another chore for people who already recycle.

More bins and collection facilities and empty them promptly would be fine.

If they are unique you can scan some qrcodes from stuff in shelves and re sticker. This has the added effect that when the original item is returned it won't credit the returnee and they will be cross. I'm not saying it should be done amd i certainly wouldnt bother but I can see people doing it and causing havoc.

I know a bit about qr codes and it's certainly possaible for them to be unique

This is true. I welcome this system as I dont use a bin collection service. I had good hope when the bag tax came in that all the other forms of single use plastic packaging would go as well after a few years but this wasnt the case

Not just here you see it on recycling awareness tv programmes and official government campaigns. I'm not sure there's any colour consistency outside of Dublin, they should really be referred to by what's in them not their colour.

Not exactly true. I visited a can recycling plant in the UK ast year and the difference in quality of the material coming from DRS countries to non-DrS is fairly spectacular. About 20% better. That makes for a more efficient recycling process.

However you are definitely correct that PET is the bigger issue.

General taxation, unclaimed deposits and whatever re-turn make from selling on the cans and bottles to recyclers will be

Stop the unclaimed deposits and you cut a revenue stream though

It's the standard Dublin / East Coast mentality - 'I live inside the M50' and my recycling bin is Green so everyone's is.

The bin is called a Recycling Bin - here where I am it's Blue - where you are it might be Green but then that does not mean that all recycling bins are green.

I don’t live anywhere near the M50, Dublin or the East Coast. Both of my bins are green. The recycling one has a blue lid. The general waste one has a black lid.

I still know that if someone - on a thread about recycling - talks about putting a plastic bottle in the “green bin”, that they mean the recycling bin and not any other one.

It’s fairly standard common sense, and not something worth getting worked up over.

There is a depot in Dublin. But Limerick is processing. Only 1 site needed on the island for that

Their main proposed revenue stream is unclaimed deposits.

So the OP was correct.

I always assumed the bin companies do it deliberately so their collection guys can easily tell the difference between the bins for the different companies in an estate - so if they all wanted to collect the recycling bins on a Friday it would be a pain if they were all green.

Cans are not the issue.

They were included in this scheme so re-turn can make money and the fact this isn't a recycling scheme, it's a scheme to get the poorest in society to collect trash.

The fact that cans will now not go in domestic recycle bins means the collection companies will now add a premium to negate their loss.

But remember this is cost neutral, right?