Deposit return scheme (recycling) - Part 2

She gets more into her bag.

Every time their website is mentioned it should be pointed out that those European targets are for collection NOT recycling. When you have blatant lies on your homepage you lose all credibility.

OK.But in my local Dunnes the Return machine will reject most deformed cans and you have to straighten them out a bit to get them accepted.Some machines must be more particular than others.

The bin companies and before them the Councils have had many decades of handling this stuff. Why did they never go into the business of making PET bottles and aliminium cans, or at least contracting a company in Ireland to do it for them?

That would require Councils spending money planning ahead and putting citizens first.

That doesnt happen here. The cheapest option + gombeen quick buck always wins out.

It may have been discussed on here before, but people going to a shop with only one machine (like a lot of local Aldi shops) with multiple bin bags full of cans and plastic bottles, and spending 20 mins at the machine putting them in 1 by 1 while a queue gets longer behind them 🤬

There's a special place in Hell for these selfish, inconsiderate a***holes!!

While it can be annoying to stand behind someone as the spend the guts of a half hour putting cans and bottles into one of these ridiculous contraptions, I highly doubt they are getting any pleasure out of it themselves. It's this ludicrous scam that's put both the person doing the unnecessary task and the people waiting for them to finish in this awkward position in the fist place.

It's insane that people have to put up with these slow ass machines to discard of something that there were already discarding in their own bins at home.

retail magazine checkout's take on the drs. covers prices, pack sizes, range, promotions, sales.

On the face of it, it looks as though DRS may have resulted in above inflation price rises to the shopper, but this needs to be viewed with other factors in mind.

The growing burden on retailers, particularly in the convenience sector, is inevitably creating an upward pressure on pricing overall.

Their role in communicating and executing the scheme so successfully should be applauded, as should the other main parties - the manufacturers and shoppers.

Together, in the space of just 12 months, they have already hit an 88% return rate, versus the EU target of 90% by 2029.

This is truly impressive and acts as a shining light for the UK to follow when it launches similar schemes in autumn 2027.

Has Ireland’s DRS launch been a success? The answer is a resounding Yes!

What do you do when there is only one DRS machine in your locality?

Why would you do that?Why would you even post such a terrible un cicic thing to do?What about the people who want to use the machine after your vandalism?I really hope you're caught on CCTV.

Not as impressive as the poster who let us know that they defecate into the bottles and cans.

Another country added to the list in 2025, Austria. Same set up as Ireland, except it seems to be 25 cents all round.

https://www.foodtimes.eu/planet/austria-introduces-deposit-return-schemes-drs-on-bottles-and-cans/

And of course the part which people who want the schemes to fail prefer to overlook:

"the increase in separate waste collection of excellent quality bottles and cans to be sent for recycling for the production of new containers (a production process that is less energy-intensive than using virgin raw materials)"

Dunnes also have no problem with more than one voucher,both at the till and the self service tills.

€54 million plus the scrap costs of tonnes of lovely sorted aluminium and plastics. Probably tens of millions more.

I look forward to their company filings that show them millions in profit for a scheme that costs buttons to run.

They've collected over 1 billion containers as of February this year.

Scrapyard.ie says drinks cans made from aluminium are achieving over €800 per ton and there are 65,000 cans in a ton.

So if half the recovered items are cans, thats over €6million in scrap value.

But hey, they donated 90,000 to charity, less than one of their board members makes.

This is my first time logging into this thread and after reading numerous of your posts on the subject, I’m still not sure whether you’re trolling, genuinely don’t understand the concept of a “deposit” or maybe you’re living in a parallel universe?

a little bit of flexibility is called for. Most can recyclers I come across would have - at most - a small plastic bag/ box of cans. So you have two options if you wabpnt to recycle in the shop . On the assumption that you are not buying one or two things , then either wait for a few minutes if the person has only a few cans or get your trolly , put your bag of cans into it and off you go shopping. In the meantime the machine might get freed up and away you go shopping.
And what’s the problem with you taking home your few cans again and trying another day?

I think it’s VERY UNFAIR as per post no 4180. I give these the benefit of doubt. They are probably unemployed, down in their luck and see an opportunity to make a few ‘small’ quid. So they have got up off their ‘ar-e ‘ to do something about it . I would class them as entrepreneurial and not as layabouts. And rather than going to the machine with a few cans every few days they choose to collect a few bag fulls ant then go. I can only guess the source of such cans. But it probably involves a lot of walking the streets, looking into bins, etc, etc, etc,etc. another healthy side of the scheme for those entrepreneurs

In my case, I shop once a week and usually bring in the recycling every other week, generally about 30-40 items. I have limited mobility and use one arm-crutch. Upon arrival if some selfish eejits have not taken up disabled parking bays, a relatively easy distance to trolley bay. If not, park some distance away, go get trolley, return to car to get bag of cans/bottles.

If a queue, one can wait or try to do shopping with bag of recycling in the trolley. If I wish to forego recycling and leave, queue up at checkout or try to find a staff member to open gate at a unused checkout. A lot of needless extra work when one could open the back door, 5 steps to the recycle bin. Meanwhile bin charges are up because waste operators are losing an income stream from the aluminium.