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McG
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Posted: 02 Feb 2024 at 4:29pm |
It’s all gonna end in tears lads
I run a tight ship at home when it comes to the bins. Recycle everything that is recyclable etc Now, I have to take the bottles and cans (if they apply with all the old to new issues) into Dunnes Donaghmede, trapse through the store with my trolley full of cans and bottles (the machines are buried down the back in the store) join potential queues, recycle my cans and bottles, take my ticket for cash or discount off my shop, trapse back through the store and start my shopping Absolute disaster. All those that shop online using their petrol cars to drive to the store to claim their deposit back |
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Baldrick
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Great scheme. Will be grand when it’s up and running like
It has done in tonnes of European countries. Usual moaners giving out. Don’t see an issue. Don’t buy a huge amount of cans or plastic bottles and any I do will just be in the bag for life and claim back when my usual trips to The supermarket.
Edited by Baldrick - 02 Feb 2024 at 4:34pm |
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They actually used to do it in Ireland 40 years ago with glass bottles.
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sausy
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Doesn't anywhere that sells cans and bottles have to take them back? if that's true then straight into the chipper when they open with a bin bag of cans to exchange for 60c off a bag of chips.
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I agree with the idea in principal but as usual its being implemented completely arseways. It should really only apply to smaller bottles, glass and cans being sold in newsagents and offos etc.. thats the stuff not being recycled. People consuming them on the go and f**king them into a normal bin or on the ground. Itd sort out broken glass too. The vast majority of big 2 litre bottles and canned foods sold in supermarkets have already been going into the recycling bin at home for last 20 years. We tend to do our shopping on the way home from work without the car 2 or 3 times a week instead of one big weekly shop like we used to. I'll now have to make an extra trip outside of that with the car just to bring back the bottles! It also means absolutely f**k all will be going into the recycling bin to the point its hardly worth keeping. I can see us probably recycling less with it than more!
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Saint Tom
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It's a shambles. We already paid for bins through general taxation. We then saw bin collection fees rise from €7 a lift to approx €30 a month to a private provider. We then did most of the sorting for them. Now we have to get in a car to make a journey that is unnecessary and the bottle needs to be in mint condition. My other issue is who gets the non collected deposit monies? As far as I can see it's another wealth transfer to private operators just like minimum pricing. The money should be used for state projects related to the reason for the scheme, but no, we just make retailers richer instead.
Edited by Saint Tom - 02 Feb 2024 at 5:03pm |
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It's just gonna end up with either
1. You do the same as ya do for your bottles and save them for the trip to the recycling centre 2. Homeless lads with trolleys will go around collecting them
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Baldrick
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It will be both of those things and it will also be lots of people just bringing them when they do their trip to the supermarket.
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Remember in Denmark for the playoff being hounded by homeless lads with bags collecting our cans. Was like Christmas for them. Have to say in that instance I thought it was a good idea as it cleaned up after us.
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Can cans still go into the green bin ?
Personally I think this will fail , only time will tell
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Why no wine??!
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Baldrick
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Exactly the amount of cans and bottles thrown all over the city and countryside is shocking . This gives an incentive to people to either return their own or pick up those left by others. Works in Denmark and many other European countries. Smoking ban was attack by many when it came it and people saying this and that won’t work and the same with the plastic bag levy. In reality I expect this to work well after a couple of teething problems.
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I've still not seen a can with the logo that needs to be on it for it to be usable in these machines.
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My elderly neighbour had to knock in to me to ask me to bring their cans back because the tesco delivery man wouldn't take them. This man can't go ro the shop because of his age and lives alone. He's hoping his home help will donit for him. If not he has a bew tax to deal with and will fet nothing back.
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Do you mind posting that in English?
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McG
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Wasn’t working in the local Lidl this morning
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t_rAndy
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My issue is me neighbours will see my secret shame of bags full of beer cans.
Will have to invest and store another bin now too because they are not allowed to be damaged either so you can't just squash them somewhere out if the way they will need to be stored somewhere fairly secure. People that are saying "it won't work". There's no turning back so what won't work is that you will pay extra for your cans or bottles but just not get your refund and be then paying 15c extra per can
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Baldrick
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Jesus lads not that complicated. MmmOne of those bags for life beside your bin and just throw in the 5-10 cans/bottles you have as you use them and then when you go to do your next big shop just bring them and deposit them.
Can’t imagine having more than 5 or 6 bottles/cans per week to put in it anyway.
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McG
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That may be the case in your household. Also a bit of a disaster for anybody tight on space
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