But that's not fizzy water in the link. Don't think there are many 5L bottles of sparkling water tbh.
SodaStream is a legit product. In Ireland, it's main problem is not enough retailers stocking refills, which means they can set their own price.
AFAIK, all you need is a compressor if you can get food grade CO2. If enough people were using it, you could probably get a canister for about a tenner.
I do not want to be associated with this statement. It does not reflect my personal situation.
"We are now forcing people to carry actual trash around with them as they go about their day."
Who said it did?
You have decided all by yourself to associate yourself with other peoples situations.
What's the main reason it wasn't recycled? I suspect it's because they were contaminated by waste or organic stuff being thrown in the bin
It works in California. The deposit on most containers there is 5c, some bigger ones are 10c. You get a deposit back based on the weight of the product. Off licence booze prices are fairly similar to here, pub prices are about double. In a lot of ways the system there is worse than ours (return points are not in shops) but they still get 75% return rates. Homeless there tend to use the money on food.
He also long ago decided the scheme works perfectly well for him and so should work perfectly well for everyone else.
Perhaps we should close down the foodbanks and homeless charities.
Keep our homeless hungry and incentivize them to collect stray bottles and cans.
Mentioning again, stuff being incinerated is nothing do with contamination. Waste companies are well set up to deal with that and some do it brilliantly.
Why not bring in a law banning incineration of recyclables? If some waste companies do burn material, the government could sort it easy, i know from personal experience just how strict controls around waste disposal and transport are, so its not like there arent already numerous checks in place. A few million in fines wll soften the cough of those not adhering to the law.
The policy makers fcuked up big time here and are lumping the problem on us.
Contamination is not the issue some are trying to position it as, its just a poor excuse to justify this farce.
And thats coming from somebody who once had a headless pig go by on the recycling conveyor. Nothing else was affected, all materials from that load were recovered without issue. The poor piggy was removed and dealt with as hazardous waste, everything else recycled without issue. Same applies to scutter filled nappies, medical waste, organic and food waste and all of the other horribleness you can imagine. Putting bad stuff in your recycling bin is gross and makes peoples jobs icky, but it will NOT make other materials unrecoverable.
If they choose to incinerate everything, thats of their choosing.
I just walked by a local park bench that has 4 cans of cider discarded. Whoever left them doesn't want 60cent. I'm not picking them up for 60cent, not worth my time or effort, and I'm not handling a randomers rubbish.
Yeah it's all well and good saying young people and the poor will be picking up discarded cans, but honestly, how do I know Im not going to get pricked by a junkies needle in the process?
Another poster pointed out we teach children from a young age not to be picking up stuff they find on the ground.
Here's a devil's advocate albeit highly unlikely scenario for you. A few young people are enjoying some cans and some spliffs in a local park and leave their accoutrements behind. The obvious place to put a spent spliff is into a spent beer can. I pick up their cans to take to my local RVM but on the way a guard and a sniffer dog pass me by, the sniffer dog gets a trigger from me, and I get searched. Sure enough, I have spliffs in my cans. Could I be charged for possession?
Both machines broke at Lidl with staff not knowing a thing to fix
I even tried my handprint 😁
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.
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.
That’s never going to happen, so no point worrying about it, even hypothetically.
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)
1.60 for a packet of King crisps?
Fck me, what the hell is this country coming to?
Yup, it was marked as €1.50 on the shelf too the cheeky buggers.
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.
I mean, a 6 pack of crisps is usually e2/2.50.
Did you buy them airside:-)
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 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.
€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 got a bargain then 😂
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 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.
I know its never going to happen. Bumping into a guard on the street?!? Like hello??
In fairness nobody suggested that anyone should pick up cans if they don't want to.
That has been quoted as a reasoning behind the scheme from the start!
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?
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 🙂
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