They could be buying their booze from the North……
Bought my 8 pack bank holiday beers yesterday and no deposit charged at the till as it was old stock non barcoded cans.
Is there much of that still going on I wonder or is my local offie the Wild West.
Fair play on absolutely sucking the life completely out of me in 3 sentences.
The Gardai for a faulty machine? I'm guessing your new to the country. We can't even find a Gard for a lot of violent crime. A busted return machine won't be high up on their list of prioroties.
I have a reuseable water bottle that goes everywhere with me. I still buy bottled water from time to time. Why? Because i dont trust the source of the water. On the train for example, the water might be good enough for washing your hands, but is it definitely drinking water quality? When was it last tested? Is it as clean as the rest of Heuston Station?
I've heard about a few people who've had the experience of the machine just going dead and not printing a voucher after they incerted a few bottles, I would totally support a customer going full on karen mode about that and calling the Gardai if the shop refused to pay them
WWe Should all be minimising waste. It's not about saving 15c, actually having a reusable bottle saves multiple's of 15 cent.
The stupid fact is most people fail to understand that.
Which is the same as here.
All for 15 cent. You make it sound so **** stupid
"The system will additionally be financed by an unreturned deposit and the sale of recycled materials."
Just noting that.
Poland plans to start in 2025. Using the same Polluter Pays model we have in Ireland.
"Money, material & data flow: In accordance with the principle of extended producer responsibility, the producers of beverages in packaging covered by the deposit system will finance the system. The deposit collected by the retailers will be transferred to the representing entity, and all financial settlements will be made monthly. Producers, will bear the costs associated with, among other things, the collection and transportation of packaging and waste, and keeping records and accounting for deposits. The system will additionally be financed by an unreturned deposit and the sale of recycled materials."
Yes but it's still not state funded, not a semi state and not a quango.
In my opinion, not relevant. RSA awardedd the contract to Applus which is a pre-existing entity involved in vehicle testing worldwide. Ireland had no such testing regime in place prior to NCT. Our cans and bottles were being collected and recycled prior to DRS and Repak even flaunted on how many recycling targets were being exceeded!
We call it a scam, a sham, badly implemented, not fully thought out. The truth is, it is highly organised and has been orchestrated expertly - for the benefit of the board.
Exactly. A private company protected by bespoke legislation (once again not from the EU. Irish gombeens legislated for it).
Designed this way from the start. Stifle deposit redemption with a poor DRS and forcing people into shops to get their money back. Gather up 10s of millions of euro per year. Answerable to no-one. A great scheme for Re-Turn. A terrible scheme for customers and shop staff.
It is not just operating under legislation, it has been created by specific legislation.
A company cannot be "indirectly" semi state.
It either is or it isn't and Re-turn just isn't.
You can argue all day long but operating under specific legislation is not the same as being state funded.
How about the NCT
Agreed, but they are not given a monopoly and I am not forced to buy electricity from them. If I want to get my deposit back I am forced to engage with ReTurn.
A lit of wind farms are owned by provate entities.
Quick search of CEO remunerations and you have figures for SSE, Bord Gáis, and Electric Ireland.
Talk abouc picking economic thinking out of your ar5e, you coukd say the sane about renewable energy suppliers, or anything else covered by regulations
I stand corrected.
Correct, but it is indirectly. If legislation did not exist for ReTurn to charge deposits it could not function economically. I would argue that is a form of state funding.
That beastie mod is a prick ,he just bans people from talking the truth ,we'll **** you mods you ruined a good site ,free speech, me bollix .
No you do not have to drink before boarding. You cannot carry liquids through security, you can take an empty drinks container. Actually most airport have drinking fountains where you can refill an empty container.
RTE is a semi state body in receipt of state funding.
Re-turn is not.
Stupid boy.
The Shannon Airport website says that there is a WH Smith there.
https://www.shannonairport.ie/airport-facilities/
Lad fecked a glass O'Hara's bottle into the machine in Lidl earlier. It bounced back out and smashed all over the floor. He then picked up most of the broken glass, put it into the sink thingy they have for the dregs and wandered off 😂😂.
