In fairness most people are just a bit sour because they used to put the containers into the general bin or fling them into the bush without any real care about the environment
I don't waste much time at an RVM, I generally bring the odd bottle or 2 when I'm going doing the shopping in the same bag I use to bring my shopping back home
Going to the shop for my weekly or sometimes twice weekly shop suits me and most other people better than having to waste time staying at home waiting for the grocery delivery man and paying the delivery charge for the privilege
The only "hassle" I have at the moment, is having to separate out the non deposit stuff and deposit paid stuff. In a few months it'll be alot easier.
brilliant idea, also convenient for everyone!
Just call yourself "Not for Profit"
i guess what it really comes down to is how one aquired those bottles/cans. You bring up a really good point, which basically translates in my mind to: haha taxman, there's no gains here! these are all "deposits", so i'm only getting my money back and not really gaining anything. wink wink. i'm making profit? prove it mr tax man oink oink. no piece of the pie for u ;)
You must have sorted a handy way to get these recyclables in good condition. Fair play to you. I hope you post bigger and bigger vouchers here.
As for gains all the average Joe gains with Re-Turn is working pro bono and lost deposits.
feck him, you keep quite and shuddup. honestly thats a good question, but he was'nt asking about the tax side of things so i had assumed he already know about capital gains tax and other income related taxes surrounding this. All the required taxes should be paid. But it would be nice if there was a law in this country that allowed one to keep the gains without being taxed if they are recycling the stuff as its cleaning the environment and doing the country a favor.
if looking at this seriously, there's a threshhold one must exceed before being required to register and pay for the gains gained from this. Most people will not ever reach this thresh hold as it requires a vast excessive volume of recycleables to reach this number.
on a positive note it would be nice to see the tax man fighting with the green man in a boxing or wrestling ring. in office or in parliament.
What about the TAX MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are talking about the DRS system. When I said voucher, I assumed most people understood that I meant the voucher you get when you return your bottles. I mostly use Tesco and of course I can use my clubcard vouchers when making an order.
I meant voucher as in, the bottle/can return voucher. You cant use that when making a new order.
if can's, you can collect roughly around €15,384 from scrap yards scrap metal merchants. Plastic bottles are essentially useless to the public in terms of a cash value, but if u know a charity that collects them you might be able to cut a deal with them.
if 1 million of these cans/bottle are scheme eligible, then you can deposit like anywhere between 200-500 of them at a variety of different RVM's and places, like what i do. or spread it out over a longer period depositing just 50-100 at the same rvm's each day.
The cash you collect from the cashiers when handing in the printed out vouchers that came from the same place, hoping all goes well that is.
Aww bless, multinational moans about waste problem that it is part of.
"In a manner agreed between the retailer and the approved body".
If the manner agreed is automatic and the automatic machine is temporarily broken where in law does it state they have to accept manual returns instead?
Doubt it about Tesco or any shop. Lidl never did when they had their machines available for empties 2 years ago
May well be the case, but in the situation I mentioned the the shopping was done in store and they will then deliver. But according to the OP, vouchers of any kind can't be used if you do so based on their 10 years using the home delivery option.
The producers of the waste do not pay what they should. It's the retailer and customers who get stung
Real rewards voucher can be used online. the voucher from the DRS machines can only be used in store,
There’ll be a cost
If I gather 1 million 0.25 cent cans/bottles where do I collect my 250,000 😁
So you can't use your real rewards weekly voucher that can be used for online shopping if you choose home delivery?
Unless you have absolutely no other grocery retailers that deliver to where you live why would you use a business that denies you a discount offered to anyone using their physical or online stores.
From Aldi's website:
Your sarcasm is merely a deflection in order to dismiss the very valid issues raised on this thead in a poor attempt to defend what is an ill-thought out and complicated mess of a scheme.
I'm glad for you though, if you have so little going on in your life that you have plenty of time to waste visiting RVM machines and queuing in supermarkets every couple of days.
I do not have time to do that. I have an actual life.
it took about 8-10 minutes i think, but i had someone helping so without them i rekkon woulda took much longer. i offered them a fiver for their help but they didnt want it.
Easier said than done.
Staffing would be a problem and you'd need a separate area to check the stuff in.
I agree that in the event of the retailer leaving the machines out of order perpetually they would be in breach of contract.
Ive been using home delivery for over 10 years. You can not use your voucher towards your online delivery.
Of course they break down. But the retailer should be able to deal with it by providing an alternative. If they never fixed them they couldn't say they're meeting their obligations by pointing at a bunch of perpetually broken machines.
As for the machine not working, yep it's a pain if that happens same as any time a machine doesn't work.
As for actually getting there and getting the voucher you can use it at the time when paying by card, same as you would with any other voucher as part payment.
Don't use online grocery shopping as the few times I did was delivered stuff that was nearly out of date.
I have gone and bought shopping for my dad and had it delivered and if doing so again would use a voucher as part payment if I had one.
The online home delivery system should already be sorted by the retailers it isn't like they weren't aware this scheme was coming.
Nobody can guarantee that any machine will work all the time.
It's a simple fact that machines break down.
The agreement is that they provide the RVM.
You can return items bought on Tesco online to any shop in the scheme so you are mistaken with your last whinge as well
He is not mistaken with his last "whinge", you just chose to misunderstand the point he was making. If you get your groceries delivered and don't go to the supermarket, how do you get your deposit back?
This is the law on the matter: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2021/si/599/made/en/print
They are in breach of it by not providing the facility as agreed between them and re-turn. There's no get out of jail free if your machine is broken.
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Well before my time but there used to be money given to people who returned glass bottles including milk bottles and what you did with the money was your business.
A neighbour of mine is from Scotland and he and his mates used to go around nicking empties for pocket money. Didn't work for milk bottles however according to them as the milk man would know how many bottles a family would have.
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