I buy Bottled water in Bulk and got stung for 6 euro charge today!! Deposit return Scheme- !!

Your comment would only make sense if the return scheme only applied to bottles of coke etc, instead it doesn,t it also applied to bottled water.

If the deposit scheme makes people reduce their sugar intake that is most certainly not a bad thing.

The process was brought in for three reason

• To improve thw quality of what is being submitted for recycling, most people do not ensure bottles and cans are in the correct condition when they throw them in their recycle bin.
• To reduce little, if you look in most ditches around the country you'll see coutnless bottles and cans. This will massively reduce overnight because bottles and cans are now worth money. You might dispute this but this is exactly what has happened in other company's such as Germany.
• It's an easy fix, the process has been rolled out in other countrys and it works. All Ireland had to do is copy it. We didn't need to reinvent the wheel.

You call it a tax, but its a deposit scheme.

These existed before in Ireland in the past, they worked but were scrapped purely as a cost saving excercise for the companys. o previously consumer got money back and didn't have to have the expense of disposing of the items. Then when the deposit schemes were scrapped people had to dispose of them so the cost was pushed onto consumers.

If you continue to call it a tax that would be weird, unless you normally get a full refund of your taxes?

There was no need to have bottle banks because companys did a take back scheme, then companys stopped and pushed everything back onto consumers so that they (companys) could save money and it was only years later where glass bottle banks were introduced. For a decade+ people disposed of the glass in their bins and there was no recycling.

You say most people use recycle bins but the hard reality is using a recycle bin goes beyond just throwing something in the bin. It has to be in the correct condition. The reality is most of what people throw into recycle bins is contaminated because people can't follow basic instructions.

You say people are happy to use existing recycle bins, but you also forget that people bitched and moaned about the very idea of a second and third bin being introduced in the first place. Now they people have the bins they are mostly not capable of using them correctly.

Applying a value to the waste itself by using a deposit scheme ensures far higher compliance as people need to ensure the bottles/cans are in the right condition to get that deposit back. You say this should have been intergrated into existing reycle bins, frankly I find that suggestion hilarous as there would be no way to ensure correct compliance or even know what people were disposing of or where.

We know deposit schemes work, they worked in Ireland before with glass and they work in other countrys with bottles and cans.

Reading people moaning about the scheme is no different to all the people that bitched and moaned about the plastic bag charge, the smoking ban, recycle bins being introduced etc etc. In short, some people really hate change and get easily upset and it makes them sound like old cranks.

It works as a anti-litter messure, infact its extremely affective as one. I've seen this in practice in Germany myself, people either bring stuff home, pop into a shop to get the money back or if they do leave it somewhere other people pick it up to get the money back.

It's people taking responsibility for their waste, this is the only way people are going to change buying habits and reduce waste.

if its that much hardship for you then don't bring it home and miss out on the deposit, thats your choice to make.

The fact you are commenting shows the scheme is working, its getting people to think about the waste they create.