Have Spain not introduced their DRS yet? Not specifically allowed but you should be able to return something with an "international barcode" to any RVM in Europe for your deposit
I was in Germany a few weeks back, my coke bottle bought in Ireland could be returned in a pfand machine
If you’re sitting at the gate waiting to board, and buy a bottle, the Mean Green Machine might as well be in Timbuktu. Which would be grand if you were flying to Timbuktu, but there aren’t any direct flights from either terminal.
And the environment? Uncaring?
Frustration, lack of empathy, why should I care - all rational reasons to take the standpoint given the absolute sh1tshow this scheme is and one of the things many of us called out would happen as a result of this scheme.
Why no recycling? Is it laziness or do you genuinely want to do your bit to destroy the planet?
I guess there is nothing stopping a person setting up a manual return depot, as long as their cut is decent, you just simply register as a return point like every other business that has, one would want half the deposit though, for such a venture.
0.125 x 2 million returns a year of the over 500ml = 250,000
0.075 x 2 million returns a year of the under 500ml = 150,000
400k a year business. Zero rejects guaranteed .
That's a reasonable observation unfortunately. Will be interesting to see the behaviour a year from now.
That's quite likely once this settles in. I've only seen overweight people using these machines.
If you are insistent on throwing money away you could at least avoid paying a second time for the pleasure.
You could put your cans in the can bin at a bottle bank for free.
There's also the possibility that they will shift their consumption to other products. Little Johnny wants a sweet treat, so now he goes for a mars bar instead of a can of Coke Zero or Pepsi Max. Won't do wonders for the obesity level.
Look familiar dont they. Just because a couple of places may have the bulk machines doesnt mean everywhere does
You can get cash for any voucher (everywhere, just only where its issued) either.
Problem is, if you can get a voucher, you can only spend it airside....
I got caught for 25c deposit on a 500ml bottle of water in Cork airport airside before travelling last week. They have replaced the charity €1 bottles with €2 cartons for profit, so a loss there too to charities. And while I could buy a carton of water, it doesn't appeal to drink from same.
There is a RVM airside in both terminals in Dublin Airport.
There does not appear to be one in the other airports, but the map is crap so maybe there is.
Nope me too, never had a single rejection. Don't know what people are doing to have such problems.
I've used machines in tesco, SuperValu, Aldi and dunnes.
Nope i admit i drink 2 much coke zero but hey i like it now it just costs me more now buy multipacks we get home delivery and quite honestly cant be arsed putting all my cans into the car and driving to a shop and putting them in one by one and having loads of rejects and stressing and fighting over a few euro extra i am just doing what i always do they have all been trown in the recycling bin
Now i will say if our rvms where like some them ones iv seen that take bags all in one go id be more inclined to at least try it bit i cant be arsed standing there feeding cans into a machine one at a time
As a tip when using the return machine, if the item won't scan, make sure the bar code is dry.
That's exactly what the sugar tax was for. And we've all cut down on alcohol because of the minimum alcohol pricing.
Increasing the price on something is a very easy thing to do, but I don't know what the results have been. Same with this scheme.
Wasn't that what that other tax was for?
yep, haven't bought one bottle or can with a deposit charge since it came in. now I bought very few anyway so its not a big deal.
jjust back from a dental checkup no fillings as well
Post it to the DAA for the craic and see what happens.Probably nothing.Probably go straight into the postroom bin without being opened.
Everyone who doesn't get a refund from machines-broken,whatever or in any store should email a copy of receipt and store location to DRS overlords and to all their local TDs.Also,complain about stores not refunding.Swamp them! It only takes a few finger thumps and think of the satisfaction of knowing the overflowed inbox at DRS offices.It might wake someone up
extremely nit-pickey post:
OK, so cards on the table. I think the scheme is bull5hit, but that aside… I was at the departure gate in Dublin Airport. I bought a bottle of water from a machine, with the Green Party tax added. There is no return machine at the gates in DA. Should there be a deposit charge attached to plastic bottles at ports of exit? I had no way to return the bottle. I was hardly going to keep it in my hand luggage and haul it to Spain for a week? What if I was emigrating? Should I post it back to get my refund? Surely that defeats common sense, if not practicality? Who gets to keep all those un-claimable deposits from dublin, cork, Shannon and knock airports? And from all the ferry ports?
zero/diet/sugar free drinks now take up a huge amount of the market & have no affect on obesity levels as there's no calories obvs
infact if obesity levels havent' dropped, you could argue sugary drinks probably had little to do with overall obesity levels
I have 6x 18 slabs of Regular Coke sitting in the hall that I picked up over a few days last week when Dunnes had them for a tenner + new Green tax.
Each one of them will be going into the bin which in turn will all get dumped into the compactor at the local landfill when the single wheelie bin I have is full - just as I've always done. Cost to get rid of those 7/8 bags.. about a tenner.
It's just another tax we have to live with. It's certainly better than wasting time and effort playing roulette with the machines.
I tried to bring back a few bottles there but as soon as the store assistant scanned the second one it started a major fire in the shop and unfortunately the store is closed now until further notice.
Has anyone tried Mr Price, every outlet doing manual returns according to their website.
people still drink it. instead the usual suspects (coca-cola, fanta, sprite etc) just ended up spamming a bunch of zero sugar versions around instead, and branded it with exciting words like max, zero, and free.
This machine would make it sooooo much easier:
You can just dump them in in bulk:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vi-Lgcjkf5w
It seems no one decided to use this as an opportunity to stop drinking fizzy drinks, particularly given the obesity levels in Ireland.
Or have people cut down on drinking that junk?
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