The new recycling system

yes, i have a sprite can and a bottle of 7-up which is not on the list.

As for whats on the list i have a few coca-cola's (zero sugar), a spite can that says zero sugar, dr pepper bottle, fanta cans (both the normal shaped can and the narrow tall american looking cans) canned cofe, canned fizzy water, ballygown and tiparery spring water bottles (have not gotten around to checking deep riverrock yet) volvic 2 litre bottles. a bunch of alochohal cans too

I've a bunch of cans of San Pellegrino Lemon I bought before Christmas that is on the list.

What happens with home deliveries, do they take back the cans and bottles, money off shopping

THINK THIS will be a great fundraiser for scouts youth clubs etc…donate ur cans to them and they recycle them……….100 cans =15euro.

Whoa! How the hell did they exceed capacity of paper / space in the machine on day 1. When some shops are not even selling returnable stock, and others items are being rejected.

So I put the bottle into machine got a voucher for 25c !

Kids will be looking for bottles in recycling bin to get extra shop money for weekend.

Observation - machine has conveyor belt to take in bottle. I felt that was bit wasteful in energy for an environmental scheme. But guess that is so won't scan same bottle twice.

So it turns out today that products made outside of Ireland won't have a Re-turn logo on them but the price still goes up. Bit of a disaster.

Those shopping up North will be getting those items additionally discounted when they return them here, not good for businesses near the border.

Quality stuff. I certainly hope the pdf is accurate.

i was in my local Tesco there. That Tropicana bottle pictured earlier had +15c on the SEL.

RTE just did a lovely puff piece on it, lots of voxpops and interviews. Running like clockwork, everyone thinks it's wonderful, nothing to see here etc.

Drinks containers from 150ml – 3 litres featuring the Re-turn logo are included in the Scheme

*To prevent waste, for a limited period from 1 February, there will be some stock of plastic bottles and cans that may not feature the Re-turn logo. Should consumers be charged a deposit on these drinks containers, please be assured that you will get your deposit back when you return empty and undamaged to RVM Deposit Return Points nationwide. 

Website got updated. They have known about it for weeks according to Irelands most apathetic man, the CEO of re-turn.

"limited time" - "some stock".

The communication on this is still top class.

Also "to prevent waste" - more fúcking lies. 😂

These yokes are the new electronic voting machines. Giving out paper refund tickets is a nice retro touch.

I have the same cans and they come back as not returnable!

So what apparently happened was the penny dropped with Re-Turn a few weeks ago. (This scheme has been in the works for 4-5 years.)

There was always going to be a few items that avoided paying the deposit but could claim it back through the RVM, this was written off.

Until someone actually did their job and found out these products could number 800+ and counting.

The loss of money to the scheme would be massive.

So they shít themselves and tried to force the wholesalers and retailers to dump all their stock (environmental) and only supply stock with the logo and proper barcode.

The wholesalers and retailers told them go fúck themselves, so there was a list cobbled together since Monday, a growing list apparently with 800 products that retailers need to apply the deposit to. Some retailers only got the list yesterday.

Another problem now is not everything on the list is being accepted by the RVMs and of course their is no logo so if you managed to find a shop doing manual returns they couldn't do it anyway. No one knows what this number is or what products it applies to, so you have to go to the machine to find out. It's like a shít lotto.

So people are getting robbed with absolute no recourse for a return of their money. So some stores have said fúck it, we are not applying the deposit to any product because we do not want to rob our customers or end up getting abused by victims of the con.

The CEO of this scheme was on television Monday night telling the nation that unless the product had a logo it did not qualify for the scheme.

But remember people!

This is "Convenient for Everyone".

Although that claim seems to have mysteriously been removed or moved from their website. So at least there is that. 😂

Scotland got close to a 100 million spent before they pulled the plug.

I wonder what our number will be?

Just in case anyone isn't old enough to get the e-voting machines reference.

That is Noel Dempsey in the photo.

When everyone was being forced into private bin collection and a separation of the waste.

Noel came out with the famous line that the only thing the Irish people will react to is hitting them in the pocket. -sic.

Good to see that spirit alive and well.