Deposit return scheme (recycling) - Part 2

The manufacturers of products generate the plastic.Irish consumers cannot dictate the wrapping.Just my opinion.

But what they do have is not recyclate. As far as we know for the plastics they collect they truck everything to Limerick where it is compressed and baled.

Material is not separated (bottles still contain cap, cap ring and label which are made from different plastics and cant be recycled together) and it is not separated by colour which is also desirable if you want to maximize revenue. Perhaps they are not concerned about is since they do have quite a lot of our money to play with plus aluminum windfall.

Is this the baling factory in Limerick?

https://www.lpp.ie/

At the moment their videos show baling up and loading into lorries. Plenty of verbage about how their bales of plastic are "recycle ready" but no info on where it goes or what happens to it.

They do say they have plans to build a pellet producing plant in future which is encouraging. Ive seen these pellets being used for making fishing nets in my locality. However if that is part of the plan for our deposits why not just come out and say it and give a timeframe?

Something tells me Re-Turn dont want to be accountable on timeframe or how the deposit fund is managed. There'll be plenty at the trough looking for their share first.

Apologies, I should have said recyclables.

Thanks for the correction.

The rest of my post stands.

People could stop buying stuff in plastic but it's not easy.

A large part of the supermarket shopping model depends on single use plastic.

It is problematic from an environmental standpoint but delivers advantages in convenience and food hygiene.

So yesterday I went to my local Aldi with my bag of cans and despite both machines being operational, it was very difficult to make a return for a completely different reason - wasps all over the place! One of my cans was rejected which the wasps took a liking too and getting it out of the machine was tricky without getting stung. Retailers should really come up with a solution for this (maybe a wasp nest decoy) even if the problem is only seasonal.

There is not much of a management of single use plastics. There is company recently set up which is designed in a way it can never fail no matter what they do. Curiously nobody seems to know how they actually "manage" single use plastics since they refuse to say.

To compare us with third world is rather lazy attempt to pretend we are much better in managing the waste. You seems to not to be aware that EU collect only about a third of single use plastic waste and half of that is being exported to said third world countries. Therefore a lot of that pollution you attribute to poor management in third world countries is actually our waste we dumped in their backyard. There is an estimate that that illegal exportation is about the same volume of the legal one if not more.

In other words we are currently "managing" plastic waste in a fashion that:

-2/3 of our plastic waste is ending up in landfill, incinerator and illegal export

-1/6th is being legally exported

-1/6th is recycled and material recovered

You can check the sticker barcode here -

https://re-turn.ie/consumer/

Where did you buy it ?