Deposit return scheme (recycling)

So took my son to Aldi on Saturday for a trial run. 4 plastic bottles accepted 1 rejected at Aldi.

Mildly annoyed with that but the deal breaker was having to go into the shop to get money or discount. Shop was very busy. First question he asked was why cant the money be added to my revolut? I answered "maybe they'll add that later". Some chance of that happening.

Nearly half way through the "teething" / "trial" period and it looks like most people just arent bothered and the head lads at Re-Turn dont seem to give a sh!te either. More interested in spoofing with stats in the media trying to put lipstick on a pig. It's blatantly obvious the majority will be even more apathetic to this under full usage. Maybe that will be hailed as a "success" by some.

I'd love to be an avoider but short of installing a beer tap and getting in kegs of Guinness, I can't do that. I do plan to get a sodastream for making soft drinks. I just need to find somewhere nearby to recharge the gas bottles. Otherwise I have given up entirely on the system.

The russian roulette element where by the machine might be working, or half the cans may not be read, is too much hassle for a return of 1 or 2 euros.

The downside of course is a slab of Guinness has now gone up by 3.60 for me. Come the next local election, representatives from any party are going to get an absolute earful from me. I am really hoping a Green candidate knocks on my door.

The technology does exist. It would not be hard to implement.

Some people on this thread are incredulous at some things I and others have suggested that the scheme could do.

Aww, bless.

That good to know i honeslty didnt know that.

Have you any examples of any service that can rtn money to you revoult account.

Was that today? From filling up / more use over the weekend I wonder? Some of them seem flaky.

Well all you need to send someone money on revolut is their phone number.

I have gotten refunds to my revolut from Dominos, Tesco and Just Eat. Others too I am sure.

Having worked at BOI, it's no suprise they dont have some features that are the norm elsewhere. Some of their systems still run on steam.

i agree, that is too much hassle. And even worse if you have a large bag full of stuff. What i try to do is test it with 1 can or bottle when i'm passing or stick my head in the door to see whats up with the machines, and then later like 2 or so hours later come back with a bag after i know its working. But even this method sometimes fails me. A Lesson i've learned from all this is to not rely on returning any bags of stuff to an RVM machine if there's no other's nearby in other stores as a back up plan incase it doesnt work.

There are some places where this even fails, for instance a few weeks back i decided to take a trip down to dundrum, went through the whole villiage with a black bag of containers, both lidl machines out of use, dealz rvms out of use, marley park lidl both machines out of use, ended up having to go back to dundrum to tesco to get rid of them as last resort. Was entirely my own fault for having faith in the machines.

if i ever go down that way to dundrum ever again, i'm planning on phoning up the stores to ask if their machines are working BEFORE going down, or ask a friend to check in if they happen to be passing that way, and to let me know.

There's too much inconvenience being created by this scheme for them to call it a success. Even if they do call it a success i won't believe them. i just see the scheme as more bs being forced on people, and another example of a lazy governments way of dealing with a problem, by just profitting off of it instead of actually fixing it, by adding a tax to it. typical.

Only bottles and cans with the return logo (with a small few drink exceptions) are eligible. Washing up liquid bottles, milk bottles, and paper containers are exempt from the scheme as they are not a quick easy money fast cash profitable recyclable for re-turn.

The point of the scheme is to make amends and cover the behinds of our country which messed up by being neglibale and irresponsible with irish peoples recycling all these years, by privatizing its collection, and selling it to private bin companys who then go on to sell it or burn it instead of actually recycling it. European union caught irelands government with its pants down, and put the wind up them by giving them this 90% target goal, as most other eu counteries are recycling properly. And thus this scheme was born. but its cheating stats and only counting/record keeping of sold and returned deposits in their numbers. But ireland is still selling the recycleables and burning, re-turn cant even gurantee that any of our items will be recycled. Their goal is to build a recycling plant using the unclaimed deposit money, yet somehow also expect to reach a recycle rate of 90% lol. they're clowns.

Don't laugh and bear with me here. With a properly implemented system, it could be done very easily and securely.

I know you are reading this and thinking "With a properly implemented system... don't make me laugh bitterly"

There are numerous other ways it could be done. Scan the QR code that was generated on screen to apply the voucher to your revolut account.

Ive had the same PTSB account since I was 12, and always got my salary paid into it. I used to pay the 40 "extra charge" to get notified that my salary had gone in. Once a month around 11am, I would get a text to say "A large sum has been added to your account". Great. Except by the time I got the text I had already spent half of it on rent, monthly travel ticket, bills etc. I got revolut and all that stopped. Someone could send me 5 euro and I would instantly get a notification that someone sent me 5 euro. Or I could buy a pack of mints in the shop and see that 2 minutes ago I spent 90 cent in Spar in Dundrum. I remember it being said around the time of the bank bailout that now we can get proper banking reform, but the established banks resistance to adopting modern technology has meant Revolut has come in offering frankly not difficult to do features.

yes it can easily done no doubt about it. i know for a fact the opposite already exists as i had been looking into vending machines a few years before covid happened. And what i've seen is the upgraded version of coin mechs, bill accepters, credit card readers etc. Basically imagine something like a small mini bank machine built onto the infastructure, but instead of having to insert a card anywhere you just move the card against the card reader or tap it, already simular to what some shops have, or something akin to the mechanism used by leapfrog hop on hop off cards which students always seem to have these days.

The thing you mention about receiving text messages reminds me of the 2 step verification thing some websites have, where you get a text on your phone as soon as someone attempts to log in. Some camera's have this sort of thing too, where a person recieves a text message when they're out, if someone knocks, comes in the garden or rings the doorbell.

This re-turn scheme and whole rvm thing has failed too many people and too many times, and does'nt even deserve to be taken seriously anymore. its clear return don't have our best interests at heart, and only their own. So i've given up on really ever caring about their scheme and taking it seriously. Unless they make a change that benefits the people in some way or make the deposit cost less for people, or solve the hoem deliveries thing, i don't really care what they do.

Another anecdote, if no-one minds. I used to have a job where I had to man the office outside of hours. SO one Sunday night around midnight, feeling a bit peckish, I went to the vending machine for a bag of hunky dory's and it only takes coins. Ive no coins on me. Very annoying. Next day, weekly team meeting, "Anyone have anything they want to raise?", Its possible I was in a bad mood for some completely unrelated reason but went on a rant about the vending machine. Considering we are a payment gateway, is it too much to ask that the vending machine might accept card payment?

Fair enough, 3 days later, a tap and pay vending machine was installed.

To the poster earlier that asked, anyone with a sum-up machine can do a return charge, where the money goes back to the card. It's not just revolut by the way, all cards can accept that kind of payment.

The shops aren't paying for and installing the machines for environmental reasons. It's to drive footfall to their shops, so all of this talk about technology being available is moot. Even if the machines could be retrofitted to make payments why would shops do it? It's not going to happen because of the way the scheme was implemented.

On the first visit today, 12x2L bottles and Approximately 10 cans, were all accepted and the machine printed the receipt fine.

I had a quick look at the machine before I started and discovered that if you tap the top of the screen it displays a graphic of both internal bins depicting how full each bin is. Handy if you were trying to return a large amount and the bins were almost full.

Sounds handy all right.

What shop was that ?

It's probably a hidden Easter Egg type thing to aid the people who empty the bins, it saves them from having to open the machine to find out.