Its right beside it. Theres another one about 10 paces away at the door when you come in and another one at the top of the lift.
Sweden has a DRS return rate of just under 90 per cent. so clearly most do bother.
As an Irishman living in Sweden 15 years I can tell you this recycling gets old fast. Sure some people do it but the majority (myself included) don't bother. When the kids were young they were happy to drag bags of cans into stores and recycle for a few quid. Am I going to stand there emptying a black bag full of 3 month old stale beer cans at 1kr a can? It's into the bin with the empty wine bottles and everything else.
I haven't been able to deposit one of can or bottle yet. What's the story at all, I've just seen bags dumped by these machines or people taking a bag of cans up to them, scanning a few that don't get accepted and then returning to their cars again with the same full bag.
No Coveneys on the list of directors when the company was set up anyway, seems to be mostly representatives from the likes of Coca Cola, Pepsico, Musgraves, Tesco etc. and a few consultant types.
I wonder who is behind or involved in it, a Coveney perhaps they seem to have fingers in pies everywhere 😉
Even worse, a private company owned by the retail industry: Deposit Return Scheme Ireland Company Limited.
Who gets the unclaimed deposit return monies, I assumed the government?
€1m per day will be collected in deposits once we get to 1 June and all pre DRS bottles and cans are sold through.
How much of that is redeemed? We will find that out at some time the collection ratio but I suspect it will only be when the ratio looks half decent, i.e. we could easily be waiting until next year. It will be proclaimed a huge success, of course, whatever % it is, and be reported as such without challenge.
No need to mention the 90% thing for a few years, even 60% will be declared an early win for everyone.
Post below from earlier in the thread from someone who worked sorting it...
Sometimes if it's not too badly contaminated it gets sorted.
If it's bad everything ends up incinerated.
It's a shame that the bright enthusiastic Green School kids in Primary turn into polluters in a few short years.
So at last people are finally starting to realise how much of a waste of time this scheme actually is, apart from the people making profits keeping the deposits. Love to know how much is spent every day on deposits and then see how much is actually reclaimed.
Thanks for the info on the Re turn aspect regarding the whole concept of recycling I'm a bit disillusioned with what I observe in my place of employment Kids refuse to separate recyclable from perishable items . I often wonder what happens at the recyclable centres when all this contaminated stuff arrives at the centre
Apologies again, in mitigation it is late.
It was indeed your previous post.
You just seemed so convinced that everything you posted was absolute fact that it might be a bit pointless arguing.
That's not the post of yours I was replying to there.
Sorry I missed the last bit.
TBH I was shocked at the thought of the little horrors dumping all that valuable kit.
I didn't realise that it's me you think doesn't live on planet earth and not them.
Good man. You completely, deliberately, ignored the substantial point of the post.
GAA clubs are always open to new funding streams.
They do things like timber auctions and scrap metal collections.
At the end he gets fed up and says "feck it I'll stick it in the green bin". Thats the problem with this farce. Cant remember who said it a few days ago but it really is a case of waste your time or waste your money. When the machines go haywire then its "well its your fault for not complaining to Re-Turn or rising ructions in store over a few deposits". Its desperate stuff all round.
That's shocking.
Maybe I put too much faith in our citizens of the future.
AFAIK the scheme operator has met with the GAA and a number of voluntary organisations with a view to promoting voluntary return points. It will probably only work on reasonably significant numbers.
That makes sense once they get to that age it's not cool to care.
I was hoping the recycling thing might be a bit more ingrained with the influence of Green Schools programmes.
Some other posters have suggested GAA clubs doing collecting too.
I've been involved in coaching kids sports teams for most of the last ten years. Rugby and soccer. Under 7 to under 16.
At the end of training or games it's perfectly normal to find - reusable water bottles that might be worth a tenner or more, gloves, hats, expensive branded jackets and tops, etc., abandoned on the side of the field.
Anyone who thinks most kids are going to give a flying fukk about retreaving a disposable bottle worth 15c of their parents money isn't living on planet earth at all.
I was thinking more of cashing the vouchers and giving the cash to a charity.
We looked at market research from other markets. Males 16 - 25 are the hardest group to get engaged. Kids below no problem. Girls generally a lot better too.
As the voluntary return point options get established, large schools are going to realise there is money to be made here and will set up dedicated bins for bottles.
A lot of absolute facts there.
I'll just repeat two of my own.
1 If you succeed in getting your empties returned to the RVM and receive a receipt you are invited to enter the shop for the sole purpose of exchanging it for cash.
2 Once you get the receipt it is your property and you can do what you like with it.
Personally I would want video evidence. 😂
And it worked, accepted it ?
Do charities accept these vouchers? I haven't heard. It's just a crappy piece of paper. Are they collecting at the machines/shops?
I see Rory’s stories on instagram has a post up tonight showing his experience with the machine not reading the barcodes. More bad publicity for this shít scheme
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