RVMs 2 minutes and 5 minutes away from your house you say?
Perhaps theres an easier way to get 100s of bottles from your place to the RVMs without skip bags and wheeled pallets... 🧐
You ever used horse feeders? I reckon you could carry a few 100 in a few of these and carry them over your shoulder easier than moving a skip bag / pallet trolley. You could get at the RVM with the smaller entrance also. Make a couple of trips.
Easy to keep clean. No slops lying in the bottom of them. Get a smaller mesh size if you want to do the cans / smaller bottles.
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Footage or it didn't happen
Running the scam off the scheme and the scheme off the scam 😂
Im not helping with the target as Im just binning my bottles and cans.
Grand, I have my answer. You're good fun, in fairness. If you do get the contraption together you might think about bringing it around the town and ringing the bell saying "Bring out your bottles."
The RVM was located inside of the aldi but outside of the shop, just as you go inside of the entrance BEFORE going into the store part there is 2 machines. One is right near the enterance of the store itself, and the other is a little bit out of the way of the entrance but still close. The enterance of the building has a massive opening (not the shopping part, the part before the shopping area).
The skip bag was'nt brought to work, the bottles were brought home in several black bags over a course of 3 trips back home from work. Then i had to figure out how to bring them from home to an RVM. I Went by foot as my nearest aldi is only a 5 minutes walk away. (another local RVM is even closer, only 2 minutes away but there was no way i was gonna fit that through their door in 1 trip alone, so i had to compromise).
i was pushing the skip bag some parts and then attempting to lift it over curbs on others. i couldnt risk dragging it behind me incase any bottles would fall out. Occasionally i would stop and check ahead, and make note of any improvisations needed. Crossing the road was the hardest part, as many people were beeping, but thankfully it only needed to be done once.
if i ever decide to do this again in future, i'm thinking of getting a wooden pallet and drilling small wheels into the bottom of it, and a handle onto the front, and some sort of wooden ledges along the sides and back so it would make things much easier. Perhaps maybe even a little bicycle bell or a bike horn.
Was the Aldi rvm located outside the shop? Cos I'm kinda trying to imagine bringing the skip bag to work to fill it. Then dragging the skip bag out of work and into the back of a van. Then driving to Aldi, dragging the bag through the car park, with the rope over your shoulder, into the shop and then loading 800 bottles from a skip bag in a row to get the magic number.
yes, numerous pains. i'll explain in greater detail.
as the larger size bottles are more physically bigger, this adds more burden to several aspects of the return process, including storage, carrying, and even makes placing the bottles into the machine more difficult as each single large sized bottle is heavier than placing a single small bottle or single aluminium can into the RVM. Ontop of that i couldn't just put them into regular black bags like i normally do with cans and bottles (due to size and volume) i had get a lend of an abnormally large skip bag.
I tried experimenting and testing between 20-30 large bottles in black bags, but kept finding many problems. Most common problem was the bottles making holes in the bag and poking through, or else getting bent and damaged. Also found them impossible to carry without damaging them as they're too bulky and don't move around to make space as much as the smaller sized bottles and cans do (they're easier to manage and move around easier in the bag). So i put them in a skip bag and then tied the top of the skip bag down with a lose empty black bag and a rope.
Then putting them into the machine became very tiresome. i was reasonably fast at first and motivated, but slowly overtime it begins to take its toll. They become heavier overtime, and i was under severe pressure rushing to get them all in as fast as possible so that the receipt would not spit out before i Finnish, as i wanted to reach a clear crisp number. Mentally its a pain too, and a pain in the behind. imagine if it would have stopped at €199.75 lmao i would have cried (not really but kinda woulda been painful to think of, sends a shiver down my spine right now just thinking of it). i had an extra 10 bottles with me to secure this perfect number of 200, and thankfully i did as 5 bottles were rejected. i coulda but the other 5 in too but it woulda ruined the number, made it something like €201.25. i gave the extra 5 bottles to some kid who was using the other machine, but didnt hang around long enough to see if they worked. i'd assume 4 of the 5 worked.
Yes, it's a certain "yes" that your actions are helping to keep the scheme alive so fair play to you
Can you explain the "more pain" element of your post?
Thanks! and yes it's all kosher and perfectly legal with all deposits paid, some of the containers are a mixture of my own ones i bought in shops, others also paid for by other people and given to me, or found on the street. And alot from work. i was talking with the boss and he re-assured me that the deposit fee's on his cans and bottles are all paid in full. He can't be bothered with chasing deposits and accepts it as a loss, but also says im doing him a favor by freeing up space and taking them off his hands.
The way i see it, i'm doing him a favor by making more space/room for him to bin other things, as well as helping the environment by stopping them from ending up in a landfill somewhere, and thus everyones a winner xD
He clearly has an OnlyCans account
Its a farce at this stage, lol, lads loading toilet rolls with bar codes stuck on into machines.
All attempts accepted here using whatever roundup thing you’re disposing g of anyway, which has not had a deposit paid. Goodness knows ReTurn are robbing us on slabs of water without barcodes but on which a deposit has been paid.
CH3OH rose to Liveline thread challenge and got a voucher that nobody first paid a deposit on
That’s got to be a winner!
Hats off to you @BoardsBottler I am delighted you are getting something from the scheme.
Obviously you are quids in with this - not having personally paid the deposit - but are you at liberty to say if a deposit had been paid by others? You don't need to answer that if you don't want to, I am still loving that there is a win for you and hope that you continue to cash in.
Thanks! the bottles where clean, unused, and less than a week old. i don't go near other peoples bins or dig through neighbors trash like some are suggesting, but still a nice little earner nonetheless xD.
Might spend the money on a ticket and go on a small holiday, will need to see if i have any spare days off left at work first and extra holiday pay.
Go to Liveline thread where you can see one way of out-foxing machines 😁😁😁
so that's a yes then? not sure if boards counts as a social media though, it feels more like a forums than anything.
it was 800 large bottles to be clear.
i've found that bottles damage less and give me money and are faster to deposit, but also = more pain. i might just stick to cans and small bottles from now on. i usually use bin bags but for this i had to use a large skip bag, as large bottles take up way more space.
Fair enough, weird that some from a multipack were accepted and some not if they all had the same barcode. Crazy stuff really.
For me, given that they were all the one brand probably says they were all returnable - probably a multipack. Making assumptions obviously but it’s an educated assumption.
Were the cans returnable or just a bunch of old cans mixed in with new cans?
I would be taking them instore if they had the logo after the machine rejected them.
Imagine people using that argument.
Demeaning yourself to going into the shop like a loser with your bags of cans/bottles begging for your deposit back, inevitably being embarrassed by the staff who have a reason to deny you the chance to do that when you're there and to come back at another time.
Howls of take your containers in store to complain in 3 2 1...
Elderly man putting cans into the machine at Aldi Ennis today, I'd say two shopping bags worth of them.
No lie, about every-second-one was rejected and he put into the reject bin. What a depressing system. Fella getting robbed blindly. People getting f'd without any lube and they just have to take it.
nah emptying Street bins in a town, nice little earner if that's the case.
his bosses " why are there so few bottles and cans in your bags ? "
anyway good for you I bet those bottles weren't going in a plastics only recycling bin previously (which they should have been if you're emptying that many)
Not sure why you redacted the number below the barcode, but then did not redact the barcode itself.
You do know how barcodes work? 9887205712403050091020025
No, because that's just a post on social media. The action of returning the 800 cans/bottles will help get us to that figure though
Brought to Lidl when they were giving free money before the gov scheme came in.Didnt want beer and soft drinks liquids all over my hands before spending the free money.A quick rinse and Joe's your aunt.Really upset that its come to an end haha Was worth a nice few euro while it lasted.
Just curious on this. So washed out and dried on your radiator to then put in green bin? Local bottle banks?
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