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@Boards.ie: Mike Seriously can you do something about this thread. It's getting irritating at this stage.
On the plus side, the green-washing of single use plastic is done, ensuring that for a couple of decades to come no one needs to worry about reinventing their business model.
Imagine the existential impact on Cokes business if we ever got serious about not using plastic.
Taking into account the opportunity of chaotic pricing it has brought, and the prospect of lower producer fees in future to burn off those unclaimed deposits, I would say Coke are not too worried about any major DRS impact.
Could you imagine shrinkflation not being prominently displayed like other countries, but this is Ireland
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… thread stuck.
I think we're back.
Not just this thread.
And then when you do actually manage to get the thread going, clicking on it constantly brings you to where it was previously stuck, so you have to scroll down to find the next new post.
@Boards.ie: Mike anything being done about this which seems to be affecting more and more threads as time goes on…..
Imagine if this sort of thing happened for this length of time just after the change over? I think its only that the few remaining regulars are prepared to put up with this crap that there is anyone still here at all?
The recent software upgrades made the site unusable for a few weeks, but I'm a masochist, I held on. The major teething issues got resolved then this issue pops up. I have enough sources of irritation in my life without boards becoming non-functioning as well!
Anyway back to DRS.
I was going into a shop yesterday and the two machines were out of commission.
Got the shopping and on the way out a young lad was emptying them.
When he got one going I put three cans into it and got a voucher for 45 cent.
I know "man bites dog" !!
Now you have to remember to use the voucher next time - I've already got LIDL ones I'm bound to forget.
Safely put away with the store card.
Thrift is my middle name 🙂
You carried around rubbish with you doing your shopping?
Yuck.
Three dry cans in a bag hanging on that handy little hook on the 🛒.
No yuck involved but thanks for your concern anyway.
That's actually been attributed to the price hike they added to Coke, rather than the DRS scheme, hasn't it?
And got 45 cent for the privilege. No thanks.
I'm not concerned.
You have normalised bringing your waste shopping with you. A nice little day out for it. It is not normal nor should it ever be.
But if you are happy, I say good for you.
Great to see the thread back to normal and everyone getting on.
Not for long I imagine.
But think about it.
5 years ago did you ever think you would be declaring gleefully on the internet that you manged to find a working bin after bringing your rubbish shopping just so you could get your 45 cent back in paper form?
It's rather mental, isn't it? When you think about it like.
A scheme designed for on the go litter collection, you have to bring your litter on the go in an attempt to find a working bin, which would have been safely placed in your own bin at home a few months ago.
Our local one not working yet again according to my wife last night. She just chucked them in the bin outside the shop. Life is too short for that kind of crap.
Think about it, 5 years ago would you or I be gleefully posting that the thread on Boards was working properly again?
The human race is not progressing technologically, we are regressing.
My local shop has 2 RVMs, but does not have a green or even black bin next to it. If it did, I would engage in the DRS Russian Roulette when I occasionally go to the shop. Bring my cans with me, and either I get some money back, or if they get rejected or the machine is offline, I put them in the green bin. The absence of any bin there means my cans and bottles just go into the green bin at home.
Well if we are talking personally I would have expected a DRS system in Ireland before 2019.
I first used an RVM in Germany many years ago and thought it made sense.
I wasn't actually posting "gleefully".
If you read back you'll see I just described my experience without much comment.
That's all it was to me just an ordinary everyday task.
A bit of extra inconvenience is all.
Mark my words- the level of refund will decrease overtime after retailers go crying to the government about the extra work and we’ll all then have to give the retailer a “processing” fee
Why would you expect a DRS? Were you not happy with the convenience of placing your rubbish perfectly into a dustbin feet from your home? What part of that made you think, you know what we need a bloated expensive mess to achieve what I had already been doing perfectly well that was convenient to me.
Also bringing your waste shopping or around with you for the day is not an ordinary everyday task nor should it ever be. It's bonkers.
Particularly when you are forced to do it not because of the environment but to solely enrich a quango with absolutely no independent oversight which insisted on having cans added to the scheme so they could sell them.
But come on, even on a fundamental level this scheme is an absolute pain in the hole even if it was good for the environment and not just green washing and green theatre.
