Deposit return scheme (recycling) - Part 2

That's what we used to do with Lucozade bottles when I was a kid. The shop used to put them out the back, we used to bring them back in the front 😂.

At Tesco yesterday emptying a bunch of cans, got the voucher at the end for just under €6.

Did my grocery shopping and went to the self service checkout and used the voucher for part of the total as I always do. This time the machine showed an error when I scanned the receipt, the voucher wasn't recognised. Tried again and same problem. Asked staff about it and she shrugged saying it happens sometimes with the faulty printing from the deposit return machines and there's nothing they can do about it.

Grand so.

A good yank and the cap comes off...

I kept the receipt but the staff member said I'd have to contact the company who maintain the machines and they don't deal with issues from them.

I would have asked for a manager. This is someone passing the buck for sure.

I was trying to use the Marks & Spencer machine at Dundrum SC a few days ago. A machine that’s a bit different looking to most others and so finicky it rejected most of my bottle on basis they were wrong shape and had some liquid remaining. The conveyor belt is flat with ridges, bottles often turn across them rather than centre in snuggly. This was after “blowing up” the bottles to ensure they should be in an acceptable shape.

Brought them to Aldi in Nutgrove today to find shop is shut for refurbishment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’m disabled and it’s an effort to get out and my feet are very reluctant to take any weight past two days.

Why ?

Totally agree with this. It's another case of the majority of producers who make millions in profits annually not want to deal with a problem unless absolutely forced too…this type of thing made sense and was doable for the past decade.

It's a prime example of why the DRS is an absolute god send for producers also. They've managed to 'off shore' all of the cost and risk associated with the three Rs to the consumer while at the same time using the scheme as a smoke screen to increase the base cost of their products. They won't be under ANY pressure to change their packaging or distribution method or suffer any significant negative consequences from producing significant plastic waste.

Imagine at least one of the receipts will be illegible or the machine will run out of paper.

not sure about individual receipts but I would defo batch it up to some extent in case the machine barfs half way through.

Not at all surprising, when I told a Dane that some pensioners here insist on collecting their pension in cash every week at the post office, she thought I was joking.

I didn't go through with the individual receipts, mainly because it would have been a pain in the hole in general to sort. I did take the chance at putting them all through, and it worked. Except for one exact same but older diet coke can that was pre-barcode. So it went into the general waste bin right beside the can recycling machines. Along with the 4 cardboard boxes which would normally go into the recycling bin at home along with the cans.

So net outcome of this better for everyone and the environment scam, is:

• Re-Scam: 71 of 72 cans got "recycled" (we're still waiting for confirmation that these are actually getting recycled, yeah?), but 4 cardboard boxes and 1 can went into public general waste + related car costs (small, but scale), and increased home bin costs + electricity costs of the machine + costs of having the machines emptied/collected (new routes not previously part of already in operation normal bin collections which have to continue regardless)

Compared to previously:

• 72 of 72 cans and 4 cardboard boxes went into my recycling bin at home, and no car/increased bin costs

I'm obviously blind that I can't see how this is beneficial to me, everyone else and the environment… Queue someone coming on to tell me I should have brought the single can and carboard boxes back home with me.

I’m very anti ReScam, but I think some folk on the thread who are pro ReScam aren’t actually shills or insiders of the organisation, but are generally “pro-authority” on most things rolled out by government, and expect everyone to be likewise

The article mentions (from memory) that plastic PET recycling target is 70% by 2025.

Can someone tell me how that will be reached when (last figures available) 70% of plastics are INCINERATED!

"In Denmark, where the scheme has been in place for a century,"

So Denmark have been successfully recycling plastic bottles and aluminium cans since before they were even invented. That is impressive.