Try these guys, who are cheaper than Currys. Probably not worth the trek, depending where you live, if you only have a single cylinder, but good if you need a few done at the same time.
https://www.kssfiresuppression.ie/
how long do you have to claim the deposit after getting your receipt? Is there a time limit like 28 days etc
Officially no limits.
Thermal receipts can fade pretty badly pretty fast though; I wouldn't go saving for Christmas this way.
pretty sure inflation had oterwise been dropping the past few months. i think they simply exploited the confusion around the scheme as an opportunity to raise prices
On a side note, when did Irish people start calling rubbish "trash"? 😀
Since the internet I expect, more so than US TV ... and take out the trash has a nice ring to it :)
thank you, can they be used at self service tills in tesco, if purchased items are 10 euro and your recycling receipt is for 5, can you scan it at self service or only at the old schoool till
Yes and yes.
If the voucher brings the amount remaining to a tiny level some self service tills won't let you use cards due to having a minimum payment level programmed in.
Today's big question.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5P6vWACeYjw
absolutely this . There are many people who were recycling religiously and sorting into green bin . Many eldery or disabled get their shopping delivered and are paying an added tax and cannot get back to the return bank
I personally alaways recyled everything and now have the added hassle of storing and carrying them back to the shop . I could do without this and could do without added tax
But on a good note a few of the kids around have said they will bring bottles back for pocket money if people want
Fair play they can take mine
Correct that there is no mechanism to return profits but those profits can be used to run the scheme and reduce the amount producers have to pay to fund the scheme. Heaven forbid the deposit would be reduced but they were clever enough to put that amount in the legislation. Either way the producer wins.
Still waiting to get a perfect score at the RVM. Today, went with 8 cans, purchased as a multi pack on Tuesday. One can rejected, upon closer examination no return logo WTF. And in case you are thinking I grabbed the wrong can, my bin day was Tuesday, all recycling went into the bin. There was not an empty can in the house. So they scam me out of of another €0.15
Random Vending Machine
Robbery Vending Machine
Rejection Vending Machine
Rage Vending Machine
Thanks - we actually used them before for filling fire extinguishers at work. Not thought of asking them about sodastream… Keep in mind there are different grades of co2 - industrial is 99.5% pure - food needs to be 99.9% - and no sulphur, benzene or ammonia etc. allowed in it…. https://www.co2meter.com/blogs/news/co2-purity-grade-charts Lots of adapters out there for filling yourself if you can get a big bottle of gas - but not tried it myself… eg. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006305970517.html
That's a strange one.
Was the packaging on the multi pack intact ?
About the only way that could happen is if a can got burst and someone stuck in an odd one to replace it.
Bad form whoever did it.
Strange all right but normal enough for this fecked up scheme. Pack certainly seemed perfect and unaltered.
Pretty hard for the scheme operator to cover for producer incompetence. And there's been plenty of that. Stuff going out with logos and the barcode isn't registered meaning it can't get a refund is another one I've had myself.
Scheme operator board consists of members of the bottling and producers-so scheme operator = prodcuers!
Only some producers. Definitely not the English brewery that made the logo-but-unregistered cans I got.
Starting to get fed up with this.
Have a large canvas bag where all the bottles/cans go in. Bring it with me when heading to the shops. Today was the 4th time in a row I'm bringing it back home with all the stuff still in it. Those machines are just not up to it. Shops should be forced to accept them manually when the machines are down. As in have an actual person with a handscanner or something I dont care. Fed up ferrying empyty bottles around.
Do the shops not have to take manual returns as well?
To be fair I dont actually know for sure. I just assume they wont.
I'm pretty sure this to be the case though. I mentioned the 'off' machine a couple of times when standing at the till with a full bag of empties and wasnt offered anything other than a shrug.
Not if they have an RVM.
Unsurprisingly manual return seems to be unpopular with retailers.
Probably due to space and staffing issues.
They would need a segregated area in the store and probably a full time staff member to handle the returns.
Hmm, looking at the site it says using the RVM or manually - there is no distinction of one or the other
Is there a specific T&C/legislation excusing the store from manual return if they have a RVM - maybe time to start demanding refunds when the machine is broke
Yes, it's one or the other but apparently there is no obligation to revert to manual if the RVM is out of order.
Someone said back on the thread that in another country they have to go manual if the machine breaks.
I gotta say - this is of course random and anecdotal - but the machines seem to be down half the time at least
I have worked for companies in the past, who could spend money like it was going out of fashion. None of them not-for-profits, admittedly, but if you have an almost unlimited budget there is any number of ways to waste/spend money.
Irish Water did it. Hot Yoga during office hours. On site gym before they started actually fixing (or trying to )the water.
A company I worked in, I would say they were guilty of having access to too much money. They bought a SIEM, security information and event monitor system for about 10 million. Except there was one device type on the network the 1st SIEM could not monitor/understand. Instead of putting 10 programmers or engineers in a room and saying "build us a solution", they bought a second SIEM. SIEM number 2 could understand that device type (another 5 Million). But SIEM number 2 could not talk to SIEM number 1. Again, instead of putting 10 programmers or engineers in a room and saying "build us a solution", they bought a 3rd SIEM(5 Million) which could talk to the first two.
Result: Everything is being monitored and it only cost 20 Million.
Rave reviews for the new scheme, lol…
"He also acknowledged there was an issue with containers being rejected.
Mr Smyth said this was mainly because non-eligible bottles and cans were still being sold, and people were mistakenly trying to return them."
In other words, its not our fault, the public are just thick.
Presiding over this clusterfcuk and coming out with that statement, which is an obvious lie to most people who've tried this scheme. Either ignorance or arrogance, im not sure which.
I see also local authorities will be responsible to go into premises to check no non return stuff is being sold. Do we have Soda Police now? Pop cops!
From the Minister, "“On June 1, it’s actually illegal to sell a drink which doesn’t have a Re-turn logo,” Mr Smyth said. “The people in charge of enforcing that are the local authorities. It will be their job to go into the shops, looking on the shelves and seeing if there’s anything with no logo on.”
More work for the County Councils who rather than policing these rouge shops would be better off using the man hours to
actually police littering, you know like a litter warden! 😊
