Deposit return scheme (recycling)

It's not about whether older people can or cannot use smartphones, it's about cash (still) being a legal tender in this country. This scheme concerns practically all water and drinks sold, so it's not the same as some retailer introducing a loyalty programme for smartphone users only. You can't expect everyone to use a smartphone, with a supported OS, just to receive back their mandatory deposit for liquid containers they have already paid for anyway. Paper is biodegradable and its manufacturing is sustainable. It would however make sense to offer the app route as an alternative to the paper receipts.

Picked up a 12-pack box of Coke this morning, and was charged a €1.80 deposit. Neither the box nor the cans have the return logo, the box has the wording "Return us" and each can have the wording "Return me"

Not going to lose sleep over it, to be honest. They don't seem to have any consistency in identifying items though, some with logos and some with wording such as above.

Just print out some barcodes on stickers and stick them on to be sure. There are plenty of bar codes for printing popping up now. Ive had a few whatsapped to me already.

Seems you will get the €1.80 back then.

It's messy at the moment with three different types of stock on shelves.

1 old stock not in the scheme, no deposit

2 new stock in the scheme, barcode no logo deposit charged

3 new stock in the scheme, barcode and logo deposit charged

And to add to the confusion some posters have been incorrectly charged a deposit on old stock which is not in the scheme.

That's on them. If they don't want to use modern technology, that's fine, but that shouldn't mean everyone who does know how to use a smartphone is limited to a ridiculous paper based system to suit a minority who "don't want to know and arnt for turning".

At minimum there should be both options, then. If there was a smartphone app or even a club card type option available, I think more people would use that, than a paper based voucher.

I know I would. For now, I'm not going to bother with it at all, and will just continue to use my green bin.

yes that was me, and here's the post incase anyone's wondering https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121770253/#Comment_121770253

i been visiting numerous different locations RVM's since, and none of them have a "wait for me to finnish" feature. you are right.

But i have to say you're wrong about the whole purpose thing. the purpose of these machines are mainly the governments answer/response to being shown up and having the wind put up them by the EU, for mismanaging our recyclables and not actually recycling them despite collecting them from us for years and going around schools advertising encouraging kids to recycle. It was just quick easy money for them. Now ireland needs to produce numbers and results for recycle, thus this scheme was born. its basically to cover their backs.

if the scheme was genuinely about recycling, and not about "getting target numbers" then they would have accepted all cans and plastic bottles and the consumers would'nt have to be paying the deposit, the stores only or somewhere down the production line would. The scheme has been put into law and forced onto businuesses, out of a desperate attempt to get results.

I disagree, I think buy in is going to prove a problem with the current setup, especially for people who have embraced technology and don't actually physically go to supermarkets to shop, but will now have too, to collect their bits of paper.

Time will tell.

You're joking, they don't even have a start / stop button? 🙄

Jesus wept, what clown designed this system?

its okay if u dont wanna answer this, but what area/aldi was this at? i'm often depositing a high volume of cans each time and finding an rvm with a finnished button would be quite handy if its near dublin

That would be a great help, it's appreciated. Thanks <3

with tesco bottle's in multipacks i've found the opposite, the outer bag/bog thingy has return logo on them but none of the bottles inside do. Instead they say "return me", but their barcode is valid when checking the website.

Are the newer can changed their looks as last week when buying Pepsi Max it was different with the new logo

If they all did that it would be easier to know but not cost effective.

What about Pubs, that get in 100s of cans of red bull, will those cans have a return logo, be returnable