Deposit return scheme (recycling) - Part 2

The entities I mentioned are usually already collecting them, and returning them

You are entitled to change the voucher for cash - a retailer cannot refuse to do this.

Your money your choice.

If the can's aren't crushed / PET bottles are in nearly any condition at all; either someone working along the line in the bin company, or the bin company themselves is almost definitely going to get the refund.

The people who crush cans before binning them to ensure the deposit cannot be returned - I've seen comments like that on Reddit and possibly here - are just adding to Return's surplus as it stands. The exact opposite of what they likely want to do.

Well I want my money back and am not letting it go to someones yearly bonus.

I have figured out a way of using less plastic bottles and thereby paying less in deposits.

I really like Dr Pepper, and drink about 4 500ml bottles per week. However inflation is starting to bite, and so 2.65 per bottle plus 15 cent for the deposit is 2.80 which is more than a bottle of beer! However, a 2 litre bottle of Dr Pepper, is only 3.15 plus 25 cent for deposit. So instead of putting my empties in the green bin, I kept them, then got a 2 litre bottle and divided them into the 4 500ml bottles. Now my 2 litres costs me 3.40, not 11.20. And, I only have 1 2litre bottle to throw in the green bin. Pity they don't do that with beer(in this country).

Speaking of the green bin, I heard a promo on the radio last week from ReScam saying that if you put your empties into your green bin not using the DRS, that "It doesnt get recycled as efficiently".

Has anyone heard it? Like most of ReScam, facts and clarity were thin on the ground.

You lose a bit of the fizz though. Buy a reusable 500ml bottle in the Pound Shop and then you can get a Euro back on the four other bottles you have now and 25c every time you buy a new 2l.

The Irish Deposit Return Scheme is set to introduce an account system allowing customers to transfer bottle and can refunds to bank accounts.

I think that the drinks industry paid for an online campaign against the deposit return scheme. Then the person who set it up, the campaign, left for another job. The credit card is still being used to pay the troll farm operator abroad who keeps threads like this going and comments on Journal articles (they light up anytime someone even stutters ‘deposit return’).

Since that person has left, no one has noticed yet that the fee keeps being paid. It’s the only explanation to me for why people, online people anyway, are still so bent out of shape by this scheme nearly 2 years on.

‘Empty can goes in bag. Bring bag to shop when full. Machine out of order? Oh well, if that’s the biggest inconvenience I suffer today, I’ll be doing well.’

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