Lidl: 10c for used bottles and cans [Expired]

Was up there today with some bottles from a multipack and none were accepted as they didn't have barcodes. Shame as most multipacks won't have barcodes on the individual bottles

You know it's very easy to be negative and just see problems with solutions that work.

Why come up with examples that vast majority of people do not behave as you describe above and just because some people will do things wrong then it does not mean a new measure should be introduced.

The scheme is proven to work in other countries decades ago and should be here.

The "machine" is inside the Lidl store in Glenageary on the ground floor.It is being run independent of Lidl.The storage area attached is at least 100 sq m

Is there any political party against this being implemented? It's going to be an out and out disaster seeing as it's fixing a problem which isn't there.

Growing numbers of people do their weekly shop online.

Every shop (or the ones I've been in) from the large supermarkets to the corner store in Finland have been doing this for years. The problem here is that there needs to be a collection system for the returned cans and bottles. There shouldn't be a need for a storage warehouse in each shop, just have regular collections.

It's a great system, especially if you like your beer. Would regularly see alcoholics going through the public bins looking for cans and bottles and taking binbags full to claim the refund....and get more beer.

I assume by kerbside you mean bottle banks and recycling centres?

The problem is many people don't bother with them. But if people put cans/bottles in them that had a deposit paid on then it's their loss so I don't see how it would make recycling more expensive.

It's also nothing to with fly tipping so I don't see your point there.

A 20ct per bottle or can would work out at €4.80 on a slab 24 cans. I think that would be incentive enough for people to bring stuff back.

Kerbside recycling is a truck driving by you home picking up a bin full of recycling materials, compost and general trash.

€4.80 depends on how fast the machine can process the transaction and how much of a queue there is, we all know that there will be rejects from the machine so even longer to get it.

People paid €6 to drink from a plastic glass at home when the pubs reopened for off sales. Do you think that someone who plays 3 times the cost of a can to drink from a plastic glass are going to be worried about 20c deposit?

The only thing that this will do is increase the cost of kerbside recycling by removing the valuable products from it. You already paid the 20c for the privilege of recycling something that costs a few cent to produce and your home recycling costs will increase.

We would be better off educating people on the need to properly segregate their waste so that less of our recycling bins aren't contained. That would improve our recycling a lot more than a 20c deposit

And 🇩🇪 , plus in Germany atm ppl use it to top up their old age pension ( saw a doc on same 2 yrs back)

I see plenty of bags of rubbish dumped around the place, there's less shopping bags blowing around but we still have a litter problem. If the cost of kerb side collection goes up it'll get worse.

Huge amounts of the recycling collected is contaminated and ends up in the incinerator. Tackling the contamination of the recycling would have a bigger impact than 20c deposits on a few products because trucks full of recyclables are being burnt.

If this sh1t comes in, all my rubbish will be going in the general waste and organic bin, glass, tin, metal plastic, wood, garden waste, coal Ash etc etc, I've had enough.

Today I bring back my glass to the local bottle bank, pay for my recycling bin and general waste and religiously segregate my recycling, all done at home, so why the fcuk should I have to pay extra in buying these cans and bottles when I'm recycling and paying for the convenience now. Fcuk eamon ryan.

Right, do you know why a barcode is needed? If cans are saved now could you get money for them when this comes in? or do the barcodes have to be registered and known that the deposit was paid or something? If so that creates even more nonsense. Offies will have to overlabel imported beers, and "grey importers" or stuff like coke cans for takeaways would have to do the same.

So we will not have homeless people or kids picking up cans, as most I see discarded are not in good condition. The unintended consequence of this is that young lads will be buying bottled beers as they will be the cheapest option due to MUP, as the glass will have no deposit, and though bottles are usually more expensive MUP will see to that. So I'll expect lots of broken glass about the place. I cannot imagine gangs of lads going home from a field with big bags of intact cans to get a deposit. Another thing which might happen is people just throwing intact cans on the ground for kids/homeless to collect, "sure its not litter, I am doing them a favour, it's as good as money".

I welcomed the plastic bag levy, the bags should be reused, I already did before the levy. I liked the system in Holland of resuing beer bottles, you got the beer cheaper than in cans as the company was saving. This will likely lead to increases in the price of cans, not including the deposit. A person with a plastic bag and scrumple it up and stick in their pocket and resuse it, an intact dribbling can is not equivalent at all.