Deposit return scheme (recycling)

Defies logic. Dunnes issue you a voucher to reclaim your own money but tell you that you are only allowed spend it in one half of their store.

Same, not seem one person using one yet, that’s a lot of cans and plastic bottles being stored (or thrown in a hedge, or thrown in the rubbish bin and to hell with the tax)

So true but the story has moved on.

My aim is to recover as much of any deposit paid as possible.

The green bin won't help me.

Same as their shop and save vouchers cannot be used except for groceries.

You can however get the cash value of the DRS voucher off them and then spend it in any part of the shop that you want to.

Shop and save vouchers are a promotion and Dunnes can set whatever conditions they want for promotions they run. They should not be imposing conditions on how people spend the voucher for their money.

Your queue twice solution is just nonsense.

Great argument. If its not nonsense perhaps you could enlighten us as to why you think it's a great idea to inconvenience customers.

If someone wants to buy a pair of socks with their refund they have to queue at a customer service till to obtain their refund and then queue again to buy the pair of socks.

If the same person decides to buy a loaf of bread with their refund they can skip the customer service till.

Ignoring the many problems with DRS which have been outlined here won't encourage uptake.

These charges and this scheme is very unfair on those have been diligent about recycling through their green bins all along. We were obviously lied too about what was happening to the contents of those bins. I don't believe it will change the behaviour of those who didn't give a damn and didnt recycle anyway.

I dont see why we should have any faith in how this scheme will be operated. It would be more honest to say its just another green tax.

You don't have to queue at customer service to get the cash value of the voucher, you can get it at the till and use it as you want.

It's exactly what I did today.

First time I had the need to actually use one of the machines as I don't normally buy bottles of water or soft drinks. But given we were having a party here, I went and bought a few bottles for mixers in a Tesco on the way home one night and then brought them to a Dunnes today as I had reason to need both some drapery items and a few food items only Dunes stock.

Now reading this thread from the start to today, you would expect the bottles not to be accepted in Dunnes because they were bought in Tesco, or that none of the machines would be working and that you would have to queue up twice or be limited on what you can spend the DRS voucher on.

When in fact you can simply bring both your food and non food items to the one till in the supermarket section, say to the person at the till that you want the cash value of the DRS voucher and decide to either use it as part of your current purchase or put it in your pocket.

The first post of mine you replied to was a response to the Dunnes terms and conditions.

What you are describing is not consistent with the terms and conditions.

If you want the cash value you have to go to the customer service till per the above link.

I don't think anyone should ignore the problems but putting recycling in the bin and refusing to even try to get the deposit back is no solution.

I think it's two different posters today reported that they failed to collect their deposit because the barcode on the receipt was not recognised.

This is nonsense and the retailers could fix it by simply honouring the receipts and sorting it out later.

Giving a "computer says no" answer to a customer over 15c is ridiculous. The barcode could not have changed in a few yards from the RVM to the checkout.

Similarly this issue with Dunnes could be easily sorted. I've seen people checking out drapery with their grocery shopping so it could be fixed.

That's just two of the many problems that are quick fixes some of the bigger problems might take longer.

Hopefully at no cost.

Put simply I will do my best to recover each deposit paid.

The whole point of the deposit is that you get it back.

Those saying it's ridiculous being tied to cashing it out In one section of the store are wrong in my opinion. Bottles are a grocery item, therefore redeemable in the grocery section.

Tesco issued a statement saying the drivers could not take returns due to the fact that empties would have to be put in the van with food items.

I don't know if anyone suggested to them that the cab might be used.

I use a card but it's always handy to have a few euro in change for parking, flag days etc.

Not a great idea to go to the bank with a load of change these days, they wouldn't know what to do with you.