Deposit return scheme (recycling)

If the bottles are crushed before going into the RVM it can't read the barcode to verify that a deposit should be repaid.

Once the bottles goes in the machine crushes it.

Ah, didn't know that. Thanks for the info. I'm a little less cynical tonight.

you dont need a receipt for the machine or anything, but since only certain cans/bottles have the speciic barcode, if you're doing a shop with multiple items i'd recommend taking one each time to try keep track of which ones you got charged.

re-turn are also over on twitter asking people to fill out forms to complain & they'll launch an investigation into these cases of of people being charged & unable to get deposit back. so might be work keeping for that too lol ifyou want to launch an offcial inquiry

This is a nice little earner from the other day, forgot to post it in this thread (i was in the other thread and had totally forgotten).

Was €8.35 in total of recyclables. important things i learned from using the machine at this high volume of inserting recyclables was:

1) how the cans are inserted matters on most RVM models i've come across, the top of the can must be facing outward towards you.

2) there is NO feature that allows you to ask for more time, it may spit out a receipt if you're not fast enough. i got about 30-40 cans in and it spit out the receipt saying 6.10 without letting me put more in. perhaps this was a time limit based thing. its not easy putting that many cans in 1 by 1 at a fast reasonable pace. i wanted to put them all in fast enough so that the machine would only need to print out 1 voucher, and thus saving paper. Because of machine being too fast to spit out the receipt, it took me 4 receipt vouchers to get the total amount.

if re-turn read boards posts they could learn alot. i doubt they're willing to change based on all the outrage caused thusfar though, only time can tell.

It's amazing the number of boardsies all of a sudden who appear to be living in Tokyo-style apartments.

The machines crush the cans and bottles

Meh. Close this and bring back the Current Affairs / IMHO thread.

I wonder is the text a little "off". And it should say "This Machine doesn't accept this ITEM"

I presume that text was just decided upon by a human to match up to a rejection. Literally anything could be put up on the machine as a message here at this point i.e. "Not accepted, please remove"

i'm gonna try Lidl later today, got a bunch of cans to redeem. Wish me luck <3

It's marked on my Lidl receipt under the item. I think it might be more helpful if it also tallied the deposits paid at the end.

I'm actually warming to this scheme. I don't pay for a wheelie bin service as I'm a skin flint and think they are too expensive. My council does not provide for the free recycling of waste plastic, I have to pay them €4.50 a bag. This scheme amounts to a free way for me to responsibly dispose of some of my plastics, so should reduce my costs somewhat.

However, when I say free, that's a relative term not inclusive of any costing of my time and the inconvenience of having to do this frequently due to storage issues with uncrushed empties..

Not sure on the reasons but there were plenty taking the p!ss out of it in Current Affairs along with some great debate. Just seems like it was a better thread with more posts. Maybe this 1 will take off the same way. Hopefully.

I personally want to clearly see the total price I'll be expected to pay at the till.. Not "add X to Y to get Z yourself and repeat W number of times as you go around the shop".

I still don't plan to participate in this time-wasting, box-ticking nonsense though.

Someone posted on the other thread that you are asked to input all the details of an "unsupported" container if it doesn't recognise the bar code - Whut?? Bad enough to expect people to be tapping codes into the site because of the incompetence in the deployment, but now they want the public to do the data updates for them as well?? And it's NOT a quango??

It would be laughable if the public weren't being fleeced (charged incorrectly, can't claim their "deposit" back, smaller multipacks and higher prices etc) for this latest scam really.

I already covered this in the CA thread. Feel free to read back, but essentially my time is far more important to me than chasing what (in my use case) is maybe 15 quid a month.

I don't have the space to be storing rubbish, I don't intend to ramble around the town with bags of rubbish looking for a machine that'll accept it, and I see no reason why my existing method (crush and dispose of at the local landfill) shouldn't continue. It's cheaper, it's quicker and it suits my situation far better.

So it'll cost me a bit more to do things I already do.. Nothing new there in this country, but if you feel like you need the warm feelz from "doing your part" and chasing a few cents each time then by all means work away!