Deposit return scheme (recycling)

Ive no issue with the scheme but one thing if anything it hasn't stopped littering much yet. There's a new mcdonalds near us and the amount of rubbish up the road down to our housing estate.including cans and bottles with the logos.Have actually seen a few people picking them up.

Lets face it - lots of deposits will be gathered between 1st Feb to 1st June and due to confusion over which containers can be RVMed, a lot of this won't be claimed back. Nice little earner for the lads... and don't give me the crap about non profit. Let's see an independent investigation follow the money.

Took the dog for a walk this morning. Normally on a Friday morning I bring a litter picker and bag with me and pick up cans, bottles small bits of rubbish along route and then stick them in our bin or recycle bin depending. It's a quick 1.5km loop out of our estate, past a few bus stops and an entrance to a primary school, back through another estate and back into our cul-de-sac.

Of the 90+ cans/bottles I picked up today the following were in a state that could be returned if they had the correct barcodes (I'm not bothered to check, they're wet and dirty)

• 7 500ml water bottles = €1.75
• 6 330ml coke/code zero cans = 90c

Even if kids decided they wanted to pick them up and return them for 'pocket money' the nearest RVM from us now is 2.2km away in Citywest Shopping Centre, I can't see many kids walking a 4km round trip for €2.65. Would they get a bag of chips for that?

I could get the money as cash without the club card - needed the club card only to get it as money off the shop. Just to clarify.

Did you miss the part where i said i already recycled these items?

No, did you miss the part where I said others don't do like you and hence the reason the scheme is needed

What shop exactly did your experience happen in?

nothing of value is being offered back to me.

A cleaner environment resulting from more recycling is being offered to you, is that not a good thing?

Products that were once going to landfill, beaches, ditches etc are now being recycled, not sure how you could dispute that

I think it would've been better served by our government to tackle the disposable coffee cup and vape litter issue where items as such don't reach domestic waste bins often . Instead they are getting us to remove our domestic recycling from the home and bring them for a spin to get a small deposit returned.

I'll be going around to my local SuperValu (Churchtown) with a bag of 15 cans. Haven't used the system yet so I'll report back with my honest opinion on the process.

Not my issue in this instance.

If you read my initial comment correctly, I said keep some in my car in case they need a drink and they've forgotten their water bottle. Fyi my children don't drink bottled water regularly, they use water bottles filled with our own fresh well water. But you must be prefect having never ever forgotten anything, go you.

I saw a dog eating another dogs turd once, but I wouldnt read anything into it :)

Id love to see a deposit in cigarette butts. Far worse litter problems there than with already recyclable plastic bottles.

They could have achieved their goal of new taxes disguised as environmental protection with cigarette butts much more easily.

There is a plan for a latte levy and a ban on disposable vapes, it's good that you would support these initiatives if they get introduced... Killarney has a deposit return type scheme on takeaway coffee cups that works really well.

It works really well because it was introduced with zero confusion and no changes after the introduction, something re-turn could learn from I think

Hasnt worked well for the coffee shops near my office

No designated mule comes in with 6 cups of coffee in the morning anymore. None goes out at 11am and 3pm for another 6 cups.

We got a coffee maker to save the hassle of a collecting, cleaning and hauling keep cups for every coffee trip and then nobody was bothered paying the extra for the takeaway cups either, and now all the coffee is made in the office.

Great you might think - less coffee cups to throw in the bin. One of them has just closed down and the other looks to be empty every time i pass it. I honestly dont think they understand why less people are going. All they have to do is give people a cup with no extra charge and they will be back in business. Well maybe they wont get any business back where drinkers got their own coffee machine, but it would be a start.

Almost a full month into the scheme haven't seen one bottle that is eligible. Like srsly wtf?

Oh, I believe coffee cups are next. I believe they're going to add a 35c levy onto every disposable cup.

Don't know how McDs will manage when customers bring their own reusable cups (á la Starbucks). Especially in the morning rush.

Aldi not charging deposits yet on their own brand.

I had a sierra nevada can that rejected as the barcode was dented a bit, straightened it out and it worked.