Maybe a bit hard on the kids there.
They were only schoolchildren at the time and might have just gone along with the crowd.
Some may have stuck by their youthful enthusiasm, likely most have joined the rest of us in tending to over consume.
Perhaps we should all be asking ourselves how many nonessential flights or unnecessary purchases we have made since 2019.
Any proof of this?
I think it's a bit unfair to say we have a long way to go. I think we've made the big jumps already, unleaded petrol made such a huge change people don't realise it though because the planet is still heating up from before those changes took place. I'd argue we are beyond half-way there
I went to the machine yesterday , returned about 11- 12 euro worth of cans, came home and realized i walked off without pressing the button to get my receipt issued, was fuming with myself lol.
I blame the beers cans consumed from the night before !
You racked up 35 eurons on can fees for Xmas booze....and yet you think Dunnes Stores are too expensive ?
Ummmm ....?
How is it a hidden tax if you get back your money if you return cans and bottles?
Maybe you're right.
We can bank the progress so far but we still shouldn't be too complacent.
There's a lot of goodwill out there among the public.
Did it one day too went into shop after. Wandered round shopping for 20 mins and it dawned on me. Went out it was still there in machine.
I think the goodwill would be greater if we pointed out the great things we've already done instead of consistently being doom merchants about it
One of mine fell into a wine display (appropriately enough). It took me and one of the staff over ten minutes to retrieve it as it kept slipping further down every time we removed a layer to try and grab it 🤣.
Your life must be so fulfilling…
Yes, I think Dunnes are expensive..
We had relatives from abroad come over, and shared staying among a few houses. There were at least three parties in my house over the Christmas period, booze was brought. Wine, Spirits and cases of different booze. It was not all alcohol either, there were cases of 7up, coca-cola and other soft drinks. There were also a fair few cans in the shed from before christmas. It's really not that difficult. I am not in the habit of buying crazy amounts of alcohol, especially in this country, but even if I was, I'm not sure how it would mean I couldn't find Dunnes expensive.
I also have plenty more cans, about another ½ black sack.
I came to ask if anyone knows if those re-turn machines that they have in Sweden, and apparently one in Kildare are rolling out across the country? Or are they going to leave things as they are?
Happy to say I still haven't engaged with this nonsense time-wasting scam. Life is still too short to be dealing with unpredictable machines, shops with their own interpretation of the rules, queues of people emptying black bags in shopping centres etc etc - and all for a few euro at a time.
I continue to do as I always have.. Cans crushed and into landfill for a tenner per boot load of general household rubbish. Between that and saving on the bin charges in general (never mind the increases I've read about as a result of this scam) I'm already ahead even with the "deposit".
Hi All just wondering what supermarkets let you load these deposits onto a savings card ? Looking at saving the deposits I get back for Christmas shopping
Thanks in advance
But life isn't too short to go out of your way to waste resources intentionally at a cost to yourself. You are a genius 🙄
You've clearly missed the point.. I'm not going out of my way at all and I'm saving money generally by not engaging not only with this scam but the whole bin collection thing in general.
I get your point and attitude completely and I don't think it is clever when you could at least give the cans to charity or somebody else that would get the refund. To crush the can and bring them to the dump you are going out of your way to make sure they are not refunded or recycled
If I bring cans and bottle back to say a Dunnes Stores shop and get a receipt can I use that receipt in another Dunnes shop not the one that I brought the bottles and cans back too?
Not at the moment you can't, need to use it in the same Dunnes Stores.
Each chain have their own policies so there is no one size fits all answer but for now, same shop as where you brought the cans back.
You can cash the voucher or add it to a Dunnes card if you wished to use it elsewhere.
Dunnes or Aldi have this feature.
The only chain that allows vouchers from one store to be used in another is Tesco.
I found a receipt in one of the machines the other day, it was only for 15c.
No, but considering you spent time putting them in why not to spend another minute or two and cash that voucher at desk where they sell cigarettes?
Well this gobshite (me) when I was at the checkout forgot all about the voucher in my pocket and it wasn't till I wasn't till I was home I realised I never used the voucher. Which would be ok if it was for the store that was close to me but unfortunately it wasn't for that store. I don't get why I can't use a voucher in the same chain of stores. I mean one Dunnes is the same as the other, what does it matter if I put the cans/bottles in one machine but use the voucher in another Dunnes, its all the one.
Cost and security are the main reasons. The legislation never said it would be movable between stores. If they did it there would be additional IT costs and maintenance. IT security on such a system would also have costs. In real terms it is a minor inconvenience for a few that forget to cash out when at the store that will probably learn from their first time forgetting
Because that would make things too easy for the consumer and this scam is all about trying to do the consumer out of money. Not make it convenient to get their money back to them.
And many of those consumers who are being scammed are the old, the infirm and the handicapped, all the while Re-turn tries to maintain their smug veneer of "helping" the planet as they help themselves to people's money.
Interesting. Thing is you'd fit more into that black bag if you didn't have re-turn stuff in them so you'd make a saving there as well as getting your deposits back.
I fully understand using the local civic amenity centre to avoid bin charges, in fact ask any supporter of the DRS and they'll say private bin collections should have been abolished before the scheme was started. I think that's their roundabout way of saying they actually don't support the DRS without saying it
How is going to the dump easier than returning the cans?
Aside from the obvious point that landfill is very bad for the environment, I cannot see what you are gaining from this, except maybe pennies and some weird satisfaction.
They definitely didn't go out of their way to make it easy. I am actually finding I am throwing more packaging that could be recycled into the black bin because the bag/bin we used to store the recycled rubbish in and then bring it out to the green bin is now used just for the bottles and cans. Easier just to throw the packaging in the black bin. Bad enough with a bag for the black bin, another for the brown bin and then the bag for the cans and bottles, practically have a recycling centre in the kitchen.
What is not easy about dropping cans into a machine as you enter to do your shopping and then bring it to the register when paying for the shopping you are there for?
Why were the cans included in this scheme if plastics are the big problem?
To get them and the PET plastics into a stream for processing separated from the general contents of green bins. They get better results that way.
