Someone who wants to or someone who is paid to will eventually pick up the 4 cans.
Nobody will be forced to do so.
One big trip to Newry/Derry/Enniskillen. Buy in bulk and then ignore this shite show.
continue to use the recycling bin at home as normal.
Three failed attempts to leave 15 or so items back last night. All machines full/broken. 3o mins and 12kms of driving. Screw that, into the recycling bin from now on.
Someone posted earlier, re where sugar tax, plastic bag tax and this tax goes.....nobody knows and most likely never will
What is the bigger picture? I recycle every plastic bottle, tin can and piece of cardboard in my house, into a green bin that I pay a monthly fee for.
This new system wants me to ignore that behaviour and go out of my way to retrieve a few cent, if the machines are actually switched on or aren't broken, or aren't full, where I can redeem my few cent but only in the form of a voucher to spend in a particular retailer.
The people who have no interest in recycling, continue to not recycle, and those cans I walked by earlier will never make it into a reverse vending machine to be recycled.
So the bigger picture results in people who were actively recycling being punished financially, and likely no greater amount of cans or bottles being recycled than already were.
That's a fantastic big picture.
If not, then who?
Possibly you are not seeing the bigger picture.
You are extrapolating a scenario where you walked past 4 cans which you didn't want to pick up and suggesting it's somehow important.
It's not about you.
Had a look at a Lidl one a couple of days ago. Won't be using that. Went to Tesco again today. Got the refund of 50 cent for two bottles. Tried a rogue bottle, but unlike some people here I got nothing. But Tesco have provided a bin which I put the bottle into. So far as a newbie I have got refunds of €1.75 spread over three occasions 100% success. Zero delay getting or spending vouchers.
2 More trips to the RVM. 10 of 12 accepted on one go. 9 of 12 accepted on second go. Area clean, no bin provided for those not accepted. Went to the other RVM in town, person with trolley with 3 large bin bags recycling with another trolley person with the same amount=out of curiosity timed the first person-6 minutes 27 seconds to completion. Just fecked off then.
So now 3.50 out of pocket- since this madness started. Not much some would say-it is to me.
Missing a point here, the person who discarded the cans clearly hadn't any interest in recycling them for the deposit back.
The general public aren't bothered picking them up to claim the deposit back.
So what is the point of the deposit here?
ust back from SuperValu, thought I would have a look. One machine working, the other is full.
There's a barcode checker on the Re-turn website where you can check if the can is part of the scheme.
Yes but only if you want to.
No need to risk deadly illness or a drugs bust.
Just play it safe and step away from the can 🙂
Thought there was a grace period that would take all bottles marked or unmarked for a few months? Brought one back recently but wouldn't accept it..is this a mistake?
That has been quoted as a reasoning behind the scheme from the start!
In fairness nobody suggested that anyone should pick up cans if they don't want to.
I know its never going to happen. Bumping into a guard on the street?!? Like hello??
I suppose they were doing the same all along before DRS was introduced but nobody minded then either.
It seems a shame to be dumping €100 per week (5 days x €20).
Maybe a charity would be interested.
If someone collected them and brought them to a machine, they'd get around €20 (on average). That's if the machine accepts them all, doesn't fill when the 100 units are deposited, and before factoring in the effort of collecting that bulk and bringing them all to a machine.
Hardly worth it.
I got a bargain then 😂
€1.70 in Supervalu for a 37g pack. https://shop.supervalu.ie/sm/pickup/rsid/309/product/king-cheese-%26-onion-37-g-id-1868380000
I don't normally buy stuff like that. It was in Centra, I was on the move so I didn't want buy a 6 pack.
I pass about 100 bottles and cans discarded at work each day. People travelling who aren’t bothered carrying them with them to return. These are then picked up with the rest of the trash, bagged, and crushed and dumped.
I mean, a 6 pack of crisps is usually e2/2.50.
Did you buy them airside:-)
You’d need a receipt. I posted over on the beer forum, for a can that I was charged the 25c fee on, which wasn’t accepted by the scheme.
Yup, it was marked as €1.50 on the shelf too the cheeky buggers.
1.60 for a packet of King crisps?
Fck me, what the hell is this country coming to?
Hah, so they are just bigger versions of the one that seems to be unbreakable in my local shop then (same maker logo visible there)
That’s never going to happen, so no point worrying about it, even hypothetically.
And after a couple of years of being told during Covid not to be sharing items, to regularly clean our hands, are we now expected to pick up dirty cans and bottles off the street, which the machines may or may not even accept.
Good luck to that.
Great point above by the poster saying 10 recycled items will barely buy a packet of crisps.
A beggar sitting outside a coffee shop will make more in an hour from loose change donations than they will from sticking their heads in bins looking for trash to recycle.
I’ve been using soda stream for years. For a number of reasons, including not wanted all the plastic waste. I found a place in Tallaght that do the refills, cheaper than official soda stream, but their price has crept up the past year or so. I plan to get a larger tank and adapter when ever I get a chance.
Both machines broke at Lidl with staff not knowing a thing to fix
I even tried my handprint 😁
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