Deposit return scheme (recycling) - Part 2

Indeed.

Any container that is subject to the same pricing model as our example and operating under the DRS is impacted. Plastic bottles, for instance, are often reused.

You are now paying extra for those plastic bottles, if you decide to keep them.

With a higher pricie for same cans and content, should you deicde not to return them.

Browsing the Dr Pepper and Irn Bru bottles today, I noticed, they are all around the 2.45 mark now. I can get a bottle of beer for the same price.

The thing that I think a lot of people are annoyed about, is that this was brought in during a time of global inflation.

Anyone who thinks producers would not add a few cents to the price of each can or bottle to cover the label changes, registering barcodes, paperwork etc is a fool.

Plus the practice which does still occur in small shops, sometimes asian supermarkets of buying a can with the deposit only to find out no logo, barcode not registered.

This will continue for years.

If the price remained 10 euros in total, yes.

As the price rose to 10.75, you are being charged extra.

I had a trolley full of plastic bottles to ReTurn yesterday, about a quarter I had to inflate by blowing into them before they were accepted. As I said upthread previously,if they are not accepted do try blowing into them to un-crease barcode to make it readable.

Edit - in no way am I endorsing scheme, just want all to get your own money back, and it is YOUR money.

Same here.No logo but cans accepted.

Its a deposit if you get the deposit back. If you can not easily get the deposit back, then it is a price increase.

I can't bring back my cans and bottles without incurring a cost to myself (a bus ticket or a taxi), so instead I put them in my green bin.

To me, it is a price increase. Factually it is a price increase because I am paying more now than I was before.

We've been sinking the price increase (tariff, tax, deposit - I'll leave others argue the finer points of that one) and still mostly use the green bin. We keep the cans and bottles separate and if they're there on green bin day they go in, otherwise they may or may not be brought down to our nearest shop when convenient.

But what I just discovered (and in fairness it is printed on the voucher) is that vouchers can only be redeemed in the shop where the bottles are deposited. Obviously this was a carrot for the shops to take in the machines, but lads this is just crazy, it's really tail wagging the dog stuff.

If the scheme was really about recycling IMO:

a) it shouldn't matter where the bottles are deposited because potentially you should have machines in places that are not attached to retail, e.g. train stations etc.

b) non-redeemable or unreadable/damaged items should still have the option of being accepted but without deposit return.

I'd sort of hope that the scheme will be improved to address such issues as time goes on - I'd be gladly surprised but won't be holding my breath.