Deposit return scheme (recycling) - Part 2

My bin collection day is Thursday mornings/Wednesday nights

Last week it was moved from Stephens day to Sunday morning but I still got a collection

Figured return would be the same but maybe not

Tesco on Finglas dual carraigway

Normal enough looking chap in front of me, there with his young daughter, Had trouble getting a can in, he gave up after three attempts and left it on the ground. Turns out it was two cans taped together (badly) with tape.

why would you even bother?

Anyway, I always use those machines and never had an issue with them. Think there's 4 there and most of the time the 4 are working. Might be a bit of a queue at times

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2025/0101/1488714-bin-bags/

The Head of Waste Management with Dublin City Council said at the time that the use of plastic bags to dispose of commercial waste was causing significant litter problems due to bags being pulled open by vermin and seagulls

Barry Woods also said that since the introduction of the RETURN scheme, members of the public opening bags looking for cans and plastic bottles had become a significant for those trying to keep the city scheme.

No one saw that coming. 🙄

I am starting to get used to the machines a tad now.

Aldi good for having working machines and flying through bottles.

Worse by a distance marks and Spencer in Liffey valley....absolutely brutal to use. When it is working it will only work for a few bottles frequently awful.

Great work.

With that number of cans each day they could do with a bulk machine to use.

Of course there are better ways.

Like printing receipt after every single can or bottle. It is fun to walk to the till with a wad of vouchers and ask to cash them in.

Sorry daddy but I do not think my manager take it kindly if I go to the bed in the middle of my night shift.

People behind you in a queue are behind you and need to wait for their turn the same as you do have to wait for people in front of you to finish. Why should I be concerned about this issue? It is return probem that they installed idiotic machines which require you to put single item in and then hope machine wont die on you along with your receipt for whatever you put in already. It may not be your style you may be loaded but I take every 15c simply because they are my own money I had to front to the return to freely use them without paying me any interest.

I think that any conflict created by my idea will be much smaller compared to excrement in a bottle as the other guy did. Also it may force return to invest portion of the money they keep to get better machines and allow people to collect their own money wirelesly when they realize they waste money on printing paper vouchers.

You have a weird idea of fun, making life difficult for ordinary people trying to return bottles and cans, and hassling underpaid retail workers. Whatever gets you up in the morning, I suppose.

Hang on. We were told bottles and cans make up a massive proportion of litter, now the claim is that there is a 50% reduction in this massive proportion but litter levels are the same.

Either someone forgot to carry the 1 or else someone is peddling absolute bollíx.

Which is it?

I'll go with option 2. The one that rhymes with frolics.

Seriously though, I'm struggling to recall all of these bottles and cans that littered our streets to the point where they were a serious issue or even a massive proportion of the litter on Irish streets. You may have seen the odd crushed can here and there or maybe the odd discarded plastic bottle. But they were far and away outweighed by the likes of fag butts and wrappers etc, which are still a problem.

But there's no money to be gained by getting people to return that kind of thing, is there.

There's an awful lot of codology going on with this re-turn nonsense, almost to the point where people are dreaming up fantasies where you couldn't walk down O'Connell Street because of all the cans that were in the way.

"Nobody is entitled to anything", yet you feel entitled to delay everyone else by printing out a receipt after every can. You also feel entitled to protest. Well, so am I, and I am entitled to protest against the idiocy of your actions with the machines.

I am sure that a busy retail worker thinks it is a great laugh having to scan in 20 or 30 of your 0.15 vouchers in order to give you cash. I suppose if they make a genuine mistake in scanning them, which is more likely because there are so many, you won't give them a hard time?

I think we all can see who believes they are entitled to play fast and loose with the scheme.

My only agenda is to go with the scheme that the democratically elected government put in place and that is working better every month.

You are the one with the undemocratic agenda to overthrow the scheme, and the lack of care for other people queueing and the lack of care for retail staff. Instead of petty protests that only annoy other people, you would be better off forming a lobby group to push for a better system through the democratic process.

I had my first real RVM problem today in Dunnes.

I put in a few cans and bottles and pressed "payout".

No receipt came out. I could see the paper through the slot.

I went to customer service and reported my problem.

The assistant grabbed her keys and said "follow me". She opened the front of the RVM retrieved my receipt and sorted the roll.

Very efficient, kudos to her and Dunnes.

Or maybe it can send money to your digital wallet.

Lots of maybe's…

Dont the new bins have a ring around them so people can put the empty cans and bottles on the outer ring?

I belive bin bags are now banned from the city centre, for commercial businesses anyway.