Deposit return scheme (recycling) - Part 2

Panda Recycling increased its bin charges for customers in North Dublin in early 2025. The increases included the half-yearly service charge, the general waste per-lift price, and the recycling per-lift price. Details of the Price Increases (effective early 2025)

• Half-yearly service charge: Increased from €67.50 to €70. This change took effect in early February 2025.

• General waste (black bin) per-lift price: Increased from €11.75 to €13.50, a jump of nearly 15%.

• Recycling (green bin) per-lift cost: Increased from €1 to €1.25, a jump of 25%.

Brown bin (compost) charges: There were no increases to brown bin charges announced at this time. 

No haven't really changed our usage, if anything our waste has increased due to non biodegradable cat litter.

Black (waste) bin goes out once every 3 weeks, green (recycling) bin about the same and brown (compost) sporadically.

I get a lot of free cans and bottle, I cash em in, and buy coal, free coal😄

On another note... where will this re-turn scam end? Yesterday in Tesco.

I find the Lidl app a good improvement. I've never bothered returning the bottles after a few crappy experiences at the start. I decided to give this a go and have had a couple of tries now with the Lidl app now without issue. Scanning the QR code and it going straight onto the Lidl Plus App is so much handier than the hassle of getting the paper receipt and then having to present it at the till. It's small enough amounts but there's theadded benefit of the green bin not filling up as quickly now.

Centra in Bray keep telling em to contact Ret-run, I told them that Re-turn told me to contact them. Just a circle of bureaucracy.

Re-turn are correct, the Centra are not. They own the machine, they need to maintain it.

Not necessarily. It completely depends on the circumstance.

Retailers can only source RVMs from a Re-Turn approved list of suppliers.

If that supplier has supplied a dog shít machine or is not providing adequate maintenance service that is partly Re-Turns problem.

So the sign could be completely accurate.

Well no. That's not the likely culprit at all. Why would they bother putting up a sign to contact Re-Turn if it just needed emptying or quick cleaning?

The problem with the approved suppliers from what I can see, is none of them are Irish. At best they have an Irish Sales Person listed, so God knows how many maintenance personal are on the road. Judging by the amount of machines I see shuttered and the length of time they are inoperable, I imagine not enough.

Also standard warranty on them seems to be 12 months.

If the machines are not fit for purpose and there isn't adequate maintenance, that should be Re-Turns problem as they are ones who sourced the suppliers and made it mandatory to use them.

Is it just me or?

Rescam a company foisted upon the Irish public, which mandates if you want to join their merry band of collectors, buy only their recommended machines, posts on a website fecking maintenance tips! FFS!

You can report the barcodes to re-turn who should get it sorted out.

There are definitely some spurious stuck on logos on imports that aren't actually registered, impossible to prevent that as its criminality by the importer; but omissions can be corrected.

There was a form to do this on their website, but I can't find it now. Their website has been crap since day 1. info@re-turn.ie by email should do it, give them the barcode number and the details of what it is.