I tired to return plastic bottles with the return logo on them and the machine rejected them. Do I need to go to another machine to return these bottles?
This situation reminds of the early days of enforced checkpoints for drinking and driving. Big blitz, many are caught and the Gardai clap themselves on the back, see what a great job we are doing. Few months later when the amount of checkpoints decrease by half or more, less people are caught, THE message is working see,but but, people being caught are way down-just maybe because less people being tested?
WIN WIN for masters of spin. Reports of people collecting littered items-system working as devised. Reports of little or no bottles being collected-see our system is working, less litter.
What's very clear from my post is that litter hasn't been completely eradicated in the 1 month since the scheme went live, that is all.
But you said you made money from collecting bottles/cans that you found while picking up litter? The conclusion I've drawn from this is that these bottles/cans have only been disposed of over the last while due to you being able to get deposits from them. So people aren't bothering to return said bottles/cans for deposits. It's a poor start for deposits at this early stage.
Well you don’t have to say it but it’s very clear from your post
the sale price of it before the logo bottles came out on the shelf was 30cent. but they've often been relatively low for the past couple of years, usually between 29c-50. january it was 65cent. some of the other flavors have gone up since then to 69c i've seen. But to see something go from 30cent to 65c is quite the massive leap in price.
edit: thats excluding the deposit, including the steep deposit, its 90c. making it even more of a massive leap. even if it were from 65c its still a leap. the deposit is like almost half of the price of the product itself. this is insane.
Used the RVM for the first time the other day, had a bag of cans and bottles which I never paid a deposit on. Got €1.80 back. Very therapeutic experience.
That's a fair leap of a conclusion you've made from my comment. I didn't say that was the case at all.
So, as of yet, there is no impact on littering from the introduction of deposits, people don't care about littering, price increases or getting money back.
5th time using the machine today, good size bag of bottles and cans, logos and no logos and still no problems. Inconvenient but working well
these have gone up about 25/30 cent, before we ever add the 25 cent on it
I pick up litter in my local area some weekends, this weekend I got a few bob back on bottles and cans for my trouble. Happy days
I'll tune in to listen. Be sure to bombard him with the price increases especially and be specific, sounds like it could be another euro changeover situation on the face of it
Tesco sparkling water is showing at 65c for a liter of the apple and elderflower flavoured stuff online, has it increased much?
Edit: just saw the regular 2L are 6 for €3.10, fairly sure Lidl are more expensive than that at about 60c/2L
In a centra over the past few days. Lucozade zero has been labelled 2 euro on the bottle for at least the last two years..label on the bottle is now 2.20. a ten percent increase. This is not the retailer's price. It's what on the bottle.
3 bottles of diet coke(2 litre bottles) were a fiver Dunne's online. Now it's two for a fiver.
They are just the ones o have noticed as they are the most regular I look at.
Return CEO Foley will be on RTE Radio tomorrow morning - Claire Byrne hour. Opportunity to bomb him with questions and burn his ears.
type them into the barcode checker, it will tell you if they are valid or not.
also keep your receipt from the order, incase there's no deposit to reclaim on the can
Ordered a takeaway delivery from a well known app last night and was charged extra for the deposit returned scheme. Food arrived and the cans do not have the logo etc. They're not even the "new" shape but old from outside Ireland.
I assume they will be rejected by any machine I try to return them to?
Pepsi Max is the same, the multipack is now 18 instead of 24.
My point was they don't need to be washed like a previous poster complained about.
2 things i have to say, first being i have no knowledge on anything alcohol related or alcohol pricing, but as for other prices the prices all have increased on everything bearing the return logo, before the deposit is even taken into account.
Alot of aldi and lidl supermarket brand products have yet to even have the logo, probebly will by june 1st i'm guessing. but tesco's own brand bottled products already have the deposit. Sparkling water and the likes have increased before the deposit is even taking into account.
did they have a return logo? its probebly to shift non-logo stock.
Yes, it had the logo (and a barcode) so would be recent stock
As I say I seems prices of some things are going up and others down or stable, my main purchase of cans would be beer and I've noticed no difference in the last month. To be fair I do accept that booze is stupid priced already thanks to MUP so might not be the best comparison to make.
Supermarket brand juices seem to have no change in prices either
miwadi was 3 for 3 euro, then 2 for 3 euro, then was entirely removed from the shelf for the first couple weeks the scheme went live feb 1st. Then only came back like a week ago now x2 for 4.50+50 cent deposit. What was once 2 for €3, is now 2 for €5, a price increase like that is'nt inflation, its stores taking advantage of the deposit return scheme. And outright gouging.
Also you may have missed this post here in the drs thread about it, https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121780997/#Comment_121780997 and https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121783212/#Comment_121783212 The other thread someone else linked here (supermarket increaases) has alot of examples too
That's not a "coming down" in its RRP for the beers. Pre scheme it was periodically reduced down to MUP for bank holidays, rugby etc, that is just a continuation of it.
So what products in scope of the scheme have had their RRP reduced versus increased?
Just from shopping yesterday, the pre-mentioned Guinness, saw Heineken as well also at MUP. All on deposit applicable 500ml cans
Coke as mentioned was €9 for an 18 pack. Fairly sure it was the same price when I bought a case before Christmas but open to correction
Yes I saw the 18 pack in lidl yesterday for €9, I'm not familiar with usual prices of coke, is 50c/can good/bad?
I'm sure you can list some examples so, and not of items of old stock being sold off pre logo rebranding.
And plenty of examples of prices on applicable products coming down as well.
U used my local supervalu machine this morning with a few beer cans from last nite. I didn't rinse them but there was a bucket type thing by the machine to shake any excess liquid into. I didn't bother with it and the cans went through just fine.
How are the retailers making a profit out of that?
Coke is one example where it is very obvious.
They ( the manufacturer) decided that they needed to keep the multi packs below €20
So they reduced the pack size of Coke zero from 24 to 18. And sneakily the price didn't reduce.
