Deposit return scheme (recycling)

If you are recycling properly then it might feel that way

If previously you were putting 50% into the waste and 50% into the recycling but now you're putting 10% into the RVM's then the difference will come from the recycling bin

So a former 50/50 Waste/Recycling split is now a 50/40/10 Waste/Recycling/RVM split but because you don't see the RVM stuff going out with your wheelie bins it feels like a 55/45 split now

I have bags, not wheelie bins.

I was previously 80/20 Recycling/General.

Dunnes is where I do most of my returning. Haven't had any issues other than queues

in the 2000s there was'nt all this city bin/greyhound/panda/whatever other bin company lark. bins had some crest on them and were sorted by the council or government or whatever. Then the bin tag came in at some point, and then they just gave up and sold it off to other companies to do their own thing and charge their own rates etc.

it always felt free, despite obviously it being a paid job. it's like in uk bins are not free per say but its part of the pole tax or whatever. overhere it was part of some other tax. but as another user had pointed out, when we had to start paying for bins from other bin service providers, whatever tax we were paying previously for bins did not decrease, therefore made it feel like it was free or made no difference changing over in terms of how much in tax was still being paid.

That sort of idea would make sense but I strongly suspect that Green Party Minister made a deal with the retailers to sew it all up and direct the business to them.

its not conspiracy theory, if anything its speculative but its highly plausible. We're getting screwed over here with the scheme and stuck footing the bill for this. Maybe irish law should have made stores take the hit or manufacturers instead of passing the costs to the consumer?

might have sounded silly, but hear me out we should'nt have to fix their mess/their problem. Maybe woulda been better for US overall if the shops should suck up the minus 15cent-25cent meaning they make that much less now with this scheme. They're lucky they're still allowed to sell those containers, so if anything it should be an acceptable loss to them if they wish to continue selling those containers/products. Essentially tax the brands for making and using those containers! The scheme is more pro money than pro green. The people who already recycle shouldn't be the ones getting screwed, and if anything should be getting rewarded.

From a green point of view they should target the root cause (people who create the products) or the people who throw their waste around. Or tax the shops for selling these products. Instead we're being taxed for buying them? feels a bit backwards. Do they want us to buy and recycle? or want us to buy and not recycle? either way they still stand to gain from either of those choices/outcomes. The table is tilted and rigged in their favor. Only winning move is not to play, purchasing a return container is playing by paying. would be nice if companies made tetra pack to get around this deposit like how coke zero start coming out to get around the sugar tax which has seemingly dissapeared now. i guess they wont for the most part as their costs are passed onto the consumer via deposit.

indeed, and the country as a whole are still decades behind others as we still have'nt even got a recycling plant for out plastics, despite recycling being brought in now since ages back. They were just literally promoting recycling so they can sell our recyclables for a bit of easy money on the side, quite cheeky when they go around parading and drumming into peoples heads all this and that about recycling and saying its for the environment only then for them to turn around and burn it or pass the problem onto other countries, while making a bit of money on the side instead of actually recycling it like they told us.

i've been saying for years that recycling in this country is one of the biggest scam's, but now with this new DRS scheme people are actually starting to see its true colors more and shine some light on it realizing we all been lied to about our recycleables all along, and what we were initially told about recycling was all bogus in this country.

Bin company pays you for each product collected as a credit on your bill. No reason for it not to work. Maybe technology will need to be improved but it could be done in theory certainly

The Supervalu in Churchtown must be the best RVM there is, have used it multiple times, never had any issue at all with them.

Went around this morning on my walk to the Luas with a bag of empties and only thought on my way that if the machines were out of service I'd be getting on the Luas with a bag full of empty beer cans, not a great look at 8am. Thankfully machine was running as normal!

I've no idea what point you're making 🤔.

Some seem to have more cop on with their placement. One Supervalu had a recycling bin pretty much next to the machine. Pop in the cans that weren't in the scheme together with the one dodgy can that wasn't accepted.

YES!! i've had quite alot of trouble with those pesky bottles as seen by frequent readers of this thread. My ONLY solution for them has been to bring them to LIDL's machine's. Theirs seem to be the only one's that accept them. i made a last effort attempt at trying them in lidl's before planning on going through my receipts to bring them back to mcdonalds to get the deposit back over the counter. Luckily somehow the lidl machines seem to accept them, but sadly appear to be the only machines also! tried a number of different places.

its usually tropicanna and fruit shoot that cause the most hassle, and every so often the odd can or bottle. i believe its their size and the shape recognition from within the machines. Shape recognition seems to have alot of trouble with smaller containers, and some even don't read/recognize the shape. The software inside the machine for recognitizing the shape is at fault and needs updating.

I though I was the only person here who was actually able to use the machines and who never had a problem with them. I was beginning to think I must be suffering some sort of Psychosis where the machines worked be finally it appears i am not alone.