Deposit return scheme (recycling)

A large Dunnes stores. It had bottles stuffed in it and a rather peculiar looking screen.Probably more down to user error.

Had an older gent ask me if he could watch me use it.

He wasn't wearing a trench coat and vigorously "scratching" himself. Still perhaps I was a tad naive.

Yep, they have good reason now to up their charges.

Maybe, just maybe, would it be too much to ask for the government to give a rebate to every householder on such contracts - to compensate them for their negligence in incorporating the existing scheme into their new idea. Would be fair??

The only review it's going to undergo will be a deposit increase(s).

No way are half of potential products in all shops within the scheme at this point.

Im still not paying the deposit on any soft drink bottles or cans. The only thing to date that im paying deposit on is bottled orange juice of which ive collected 2 bottles since scheme came in. This would clearly explain why the machines are not under too much pressure at the minute.

We may buy very different things. And while my choices may be a bit odd, they cover a lot of the market - yours would have to be similarly or even further odd to avoid it that much. So its just as likely that you not finding in scope stuff is a massive outlier as it is that I'm not finding out of scope stuff.

Local shops to me have run out of their pre-scheme Coca Cola Ireland products already, only within the last week or so. All new stuff is logoed. Irn Bru is still out of scope, Football Special is in scope. That's pretty much all I ever buy admittedly. I've not gone back to the chipper that does Pepsi yet.

I don't buy macro produced beer so wouldn't have a clue what's going on there; but in my local shop the only remaining not in scope Irish craft cans are Wicklow Wolf. All the Kinneger/Farringtons/8 Degrees/O'Haras cans are now either logo or international barcode. Same with the local Lidl.

after june 1st i'd imagine it would be hard to see any non-return possible cans/bottles (unless they're made out of some non recycleable material). Shops have from now until june 1st to get rid of their remaining shop, but i would imagine the odd corner shop that goes to things like cash and carry, or the north may every so often sneak in a couple of non return eligible items, or some random imported international thing and slide under the radar for a bit.

i think june 1st is the date it becomes illegal to sell the cans/bottle items without a deposit

From my own experience multipacks of canned Guinness aren't included yet, that's the main source of cans in my household and I'd imagine most households are similar, with perhaps a different beer in the container.

I'm not saying there will be queues, but when the multipacks get the barcodes the machines will be busier and the need to turn the third one on will be there

Did you pay a deposit on the bottles?

I can't understand if a deposit is being taken for an item how the item is then not qualifying for refund at any RVM in the system, surely only the list of barcoded items accepted at the RVM should be triggering the deposit charge at the points of sale, otherwise it's what can only be described as fraud taking place. The Re-Turn symbol on the item has zero to do with how the barcode triggers the charge or not in a store.

If you brought them inside for a human to see might you have got a voucher?

Just a heads up. If you sit down in a subway or a cafe and they hand you a bottled drink or a can tell them to pour it into a cup for you.

otherwise they charge you 15c AND you have to carry around your bottle or can with you for the rest of the day.

Did you pay a deposit on the one purchased in the south ?

I did

Looks like you've hit the jackpot then 😊

You can check the barcode just to be sure.