Deposit return scheme (recycling)

also quite a few customers recently have been walking out of the shop when they see the price of drinks at the till. dont blame them (other than if they're actually rude about it). most drinks are around 25% more expensive. haven't heard a single customer since this whole thing started have a positive view of the scheme tbh.

have seen responses like this a good few times in this thread. someone points out how stupid the scheme is & there's just a response like "well maybe everyone should just simply give up beverages."😭

It's early days. Many more people will be able to figure out that a deposit makes something more expensive at the till. And then your custom will return.

NavaFresh.ie its actually 36 but + 9 euro shipping.

I am seriously researching soda stream too though. €9 for syrup that will make 9 litres of pepsi. Despite the initial outlay, the loss I'm currently making on deposits alone, it wouldn't be long paying for itself.

Where’s the money go from the plastic bag tax, and the sugar tax 🤔

prices jumped up at the same time as the deposit was introduced, people therefore understandably are thinking that the price increase on the label includes the deposit

Following the link above… I got to a page where they say (link)

"Any consumer who pays a deposit on a drinks container will receive a full refund of the deposit when they return the item undamaged to participating shops and supermarkets nationwide," it said in a statement to Newstalk.

"Consumers who may be charged a deposit on drinks container without a Re-turn logo can get their deposit back when they are returned empty and undamaged to any Reverse Vending Machine around the country."

"Re-turn added that "under no circumstances" will a consumer pay a deposit and not be entitled to its reimbursement"

Soooo - using the machines are optional? Has anyone availed of this offer?

Sodastream is good solution only if you can rig it to use other source of CO2 or if you can refill CO2 yourself. CO2 is dirt cheap but branded refills are way too expensive.

Re-turn scheme is not for everyone, I would even say majority is not going to bother. I work in city center - nights. Every morning when I go home I see a lot of returnable cans and bottles laying around from night before. Worst after weekend. People simply don't bother and I do not blame them - it is hard to be staggering home from night out carrying 10 empty cans when you do have problems to keep walking as it is :)

This issue was somehow sorted out by homeless people in other countries who found it as additional income stream walking and collecting cans but seems to be too much hassle for our disadvantaged lot. They usually go for straight euro or two and do not see 15 cents profitable enough.

i dont drive, & my shopping i get on the way home form work (often work 6 days & get home too late to return to shop). so i either have to bring with me on the way to work or do on my day off. brought a fairly big bag of cans/bottles to get rid of on my way to work yesterday and of course, one place, emptying machine, other place was broken. ended up carrying around the bag on the train to work like a dope

If we all just think about this paragraph for a second.

We are now forcing people to carry actual trash around with them as they go about their day. And not only bringing it shopping, to work and on the train, doctors appointments, etc. We also have to mind it like it's a bag of eggs. Because God forbid it gets a dent in it.

It's Lunatic behaviour which we are on our way to normalising.

Local Tidy Towns have a seperate bag on their wheelbarrows for them now and have put up photos of getting refunds.

Really.

Wheelbarrows? Where is this.

We get a roll of bags and a picker.

Everything goes into the bag.

I know what the response would be if we tried to degrade the volunteers into sorting filthy waste.

It would begin with a Fúck and end with an Off.

I bought a 1.5 litre bottle of tonic in my local supervalu yesterday for 65 cent. Really good value, after looking at the receipt, I was charged 25 cent deposit on top. 90 cent is still good value but its about a 40% increase on the original price.

The deposit came in during a time of high inflation, so prices went up anyway, the retailers had to pay to print new price tags including the "+15/25 cent deposit", and call me cynical but I would assume the new price added a cent or two to pay for the printing.

What the government repeatedly seems to forget is that anytime prices are artificially changed, the consumer foots the bill for not just the change but the cost of making the change.

Went into a Costcutter yesterday. Mind blowing how much beverage prices have increased since this farce started.

The latest advice on here is give up your favourite drinks altogether. Like we're all idiots incapable of enjoying the odd soft drink and moderating our intake. Similar stellar logic was being was told a few months ago if I dont like the way Re-Turn is shaping up I should leave Ireland.

Maybe that should be added to the Re-Turn homepage: "Give up the beverages you enjoy due to Re-Turn related price hikes. Be grand. Sure it's better for you anyway. If you still dont like it. Emigrate".