Deposit return scheme (recycling)

You can get cash back for your voucher and spend it where you like.

Carlsberg also comes in glass bottles so no deposit required.

The bin companies are separate from the DRS.

Careful now. Round these parts you could get called out of touch with reality for that kind of logical reasoning.

Sorry I'm on a mobile so no post numbers.

Can you quote the post if you get a chance ?

@L1011 explained it above. It's not just Dunnes who have an iffy way of handling the scheme though as was shown here in previous posts with a lot of the independent franchise supermarkets who are renowned for being useless at most levels having their own interpretation of how it works. I suppose we will see when it's fully implemented how the chips fall.

The Musgraves HQ thing seems to be the legit reason (its not an excuse - they could still cash out and retain the voucher for later processing) as that's what my local shop that had the issue with the self checkouts not taking them told me was wrong afterwards. They cashed the voucher out without any problems - it was actually their suggestion rather than keep fighting the till. It took my next one no bother.

Owner of that shop is happy with it other than the Musgrave issues, says he's now emptying the machine ~3 times a week and that its full on about 700 items normally, obviously that varies depending on what goes in, Fruit Shoot bottles vs 3L Country Spring (if that still exists); Red Bull vs full size beer cans are going to be very different in space even when compacted/shredded. This is one of the tiny machines.

Yea it's called your recycling bin🙄

I didnt introduce the system which would get said worker involved in such a situation so. No. It ain't my problem. This should be scrapped. It's a gimmick

i had assumed for the longest time that once a barcode from a deposit voucher was scanned it would no longer be valid, now come to think of it when they say the expiry date is forever/never ending... they're not wrong LOL!

and to be fair i think that toilet roll post a person made was a nice satire troll post or else a really bad broken shape recognition in the machine. i've yet to see it actually work in person, saw 2 kids trying it and fail. Although with that being said i know a person did it with an empty tin of dog food and it worked so who knows.

if thats true then i imagine it would have to be an inside job, as the paper is a unique kind of bible paper (for lack of better way of calling it) and the type of ink they use could be special/unique to the RVM. i could be talking bollox, but the receipt paper already has a pre-printed thing on the back of it which different from the ink printed on the front.

So far i've seen some red word beginning with F at the back of the deposit vouchers, or else an RVM watermark but more solid and faint rather than transparent.

i would kind of disagree with this, if anyone remembers the "del-boy" posts, people were clearly trying to scam the system even before it went live day 1. Some even do take advantage of it even to this day. But yeah you do have a point, as the deposit itself and the lack of support for people who cant leave homes, rely on home deliveries, and who already recycle in green bin like a good recycle. Has clearly caused alot of outrage and provoked people to either not take part in the scheme, or boycott it entirely, or look for alternative ways to game it.

yes i can explain. some places do not have staff on-hand with the knowledge of how to fix an RVM machine when it jams or malfunctions, so they have to call someone out to fix it which takes about 1-3 days or even a week depending on how busy or lazy the fixer is. i went to 3 different LIDL's in the same day like almost a week ago and 2 out of 3 Lidl's had their machines not working. From what i could see inside of them were a traffic jam of bottles that is too far in for any customer to unclog.

i've been seeing alot of error's happen on the RVM's that have a long narrow conveyor belt type of slot, the ones that use metal coils and what looks like a bike chain in their mechanism (the ones that go very far in where you cant reach inside of). The reason for this i believe is that the belt goes so fast one would think they could insert one after another, but despite its speed the screen tells you when its ready to take more. and what happens is people ignore this screen and put one after another in, then when the screen says its ready to put more, one is already in at the exist, blocking the path down the back, so when you put one in onfront, it gets scanned but does not go down the chute due to one already being resting on there, now causing a traffic jam of bottles. Seen this exact thing happen a bunch of times. Then the machine displays and out of service thingy or something red on the screen. a red message or red octogon shape, or a red hand

I was kinda the same, this seems to be taking the cans pretty fast so just keep feeding them in, then got stuck and said take it out or something. Used bottle machines in Germany and literally you could just keep throwing bottles in no issue

"Can anyone explain why the machines are constantly out of order?"

Ask yourself " what country am I in"

No, i'm saying it does work when its used how its meant to be used (most times) and not used impatiently and rushed by shoving one after another when the machine clearly states its not ready yet. The fast speed of these type of bike chain conveyor belts mentioned, gives the illusion that fast moving = ready for more, when the screen says it is'nt. Too many people get excited at the speed and feel an urge to be compelled to get more into it faster. Above poster that responded to me even admitted to being guilty of that lol

Will contribute to any list drawn up.Non return logo products could turn out cheaper in the North and be accepted south as you say