Deposit return scheme (recycling)

interesting, and yes i think they deliberately do this by design which makes it more awkward for us and conveinent for them (the location of RVM's being inside some supermarkets.) as for the likes of aldi and lidl so far i have seen them at the front doors, or near abouts, but tesco and such usually located inside way deep inside as far as i've seen.

However how does any of this explain the other guy calling me picky? from your answer/response i still don't understand how i'm meant to be picky

asking "why don't they clean the recyclables instead of letting them go to waste" is a fair legitimate question. Can't say the same for your responses as they are often just personal attacks or something containing an expression of bias towards what people say. #

"I'm not sure what cleaning your recyables has to do with anything." the post i replied to was about contamination, and 1 bannana ruining a whole bin of recycleables. It's got everything to do with it.

a recycling centre could set up a more industrialized way of cleaning recycleables im sure. otherwise its alot of recycleables from a truck load all going to waste just because of something like a nappy or bannana chucked in, which is such a waste of potential recycling to produce raw materials.

Water is cheap, is there something like a power washer that can blast the dirt off? or maybe something to keep them steeping in that kills the germs and un-contaminates them. This can be done on a mass scale in bulk if needed, i just think its an awful shame to lose 3 truck loads of recycleables just because one person put something non-recyceable in each of them

Some reading for you. Nappies seem to be a big problem. I'm not sure washing off human waste is practical and then have that warlstre reused as starter material for a new plastic bottle.

Irn Bru is only made in Scotland. I get a pack every couple of weeks. I went to order some during the week and Tesco said they were out of stock of the cans, but had bottles of Irn Bru Xtra, which is the sugar free version. Just checked and they had no Irn Bru at all.

To say I'm worried is an understatement.

You just going to ignore the part about the nappies full of ****.

You would be the first to complain if it came out the cardboxes were produced from a recycled material that had human waste mixed in with it.

Its just one nappy though. There is no way of knowing where the human waster went.

Sure they could take a chance and wash it but then mixed up in a vat with water but the water is contaminated as well as the batch of cardboard.

Anyway I'm done posting here as you are just ignoring ****. Enjoying crying into your taxed plastic bottles.

i met the Business Development guy for Barrs (iron bru) owner recently, i didnt get the impression they were pulling back. The last few days has seen Tesco and others allow shelves become destocked to encourage sales of other older stock. Its already starting to get back to normal.

Moving people away from buying single use bottles is an entirely expected positive outcome of this.

Small PET bottled water should never have become a commodity product. A reduction it its sales is positive for absolutely everyone involved

The Deposit Return Scheme is a great way of Ireland recycling singles use plastics which sounds great on paper but dose not make sense if you look into it. The recycling machines only accept the ReTurn logo, which many of the criticisms stem from, and the voucher that is dispensed is paper. Would makes sense if the voucher was delivered digitally rather then using up paper. Another criticism I have of the scheme are that some vendors are exempted from the scheme so they free to sell single use plastics without the logo. The ReTurn scheme is relatively new to Ireland and it will take time to get used to but some of points I mentioned makes little to no sense.

I'm interested to know how you expect this to happen.

Small PET bottles I can see maybe going. Some reduction in bottled water, for tap or 'eco-Tetra' packing, maybe.

After these limited uses, I don't see how this scheme will reduce single use containers. (I believe it perpetuates it as now we are all so invested it is here to stay for a decade or two.)

Also, some reductions could disappear if we see shrinkflation tactics - 440ml beer cans (with deposit) to retain the price point of 500ml cans pre deposit; the possibility of 125ml or 145ml 10 pack kids water to avoid DRS, etc.

Just my thoughts.

If you're eating in, I don't see why the cans should have a levy. The cafe should take care of recycling that.

The paper voucher is accessible to all without the need to have an account.

We are in a 4 month transition up to June 1.

During this period containers without log/barcode can continue to be sold alongside stock that is part of Re-turn.

Deposits can only be charged on Re-turn stock.

After June 1 all stock must be Re-turn registered and a deposit charged.

There has been some initial confusion among customers and retailers but hopefully this will dissipate over time.

Well this is a thread about the deposit return scheme not about leaving the EU so I don't dwell on it too much but if you take a close look at how brexit affected the UK and think we would be better off doing the same you're either deluded or trying your hand at comedy... Good luck if it's the latter

The scheme should be as simple as you describe, there should be no confusion

Sadly on day 1 there were products without the re-turn logo that are accepted at RVMs and products with logos that aren't accepted. Presumably at a manual re-turn point the opposite is true. Not exactly how it was sold to us in the run-up

Map still isn't up to date

On the morning of the launch we had Eamon Ryan on the radio talking about a "Version 2" of the scheme where barcodes on cans could potentially be on the base so they can be crushed. Talking about V2 on the V1 launch day 😞

It's a half-arsed launch in my mind and could have been done much better without much effort

Can't disagree with you re. launch issues.

Could have been handled better.