Non-availability of 5 litre water in supermarkets?

[S class]

Just back from my local recycling bring centre.

There was an amazing amount of drink cans in the aluminium skip.

A lot of people are to rich or busy to bother returning their drink cans.

 

[Leo]

A lot of people are to rich or busy to bother returning their drink cans.

Something like 15% of ReTurn eligible packaging is still ending up in the green bins.

 

[mathepac]

Retailers rubbing their hands so.

 

[ClubMan]

Retailers rubbing their hands so.

How so?

Deposit return scheme explainer: Who gets the money if I don’t collect?

From February 1st, a 15c deposit will be automatically added to bottles and cans between 150ml and 500ml and 25c for larger containers

www.irishtimes.com

Will the retailers profit from my deposit if I don’t return the bottles?​

The short answer is no. The producers of the drink products charge the retailers the deposits and the producers then give those deposits to Re-turn. That means the retailers end up out of pocket initially. Then the retailers charge the deposits to you, the consumers. So you end up out of pocket. Then you bring the containers back to the retailers and get your money back. That means the retailers are out of pocket again. Then they get the money back from Re-turn. If you don’t bring the bottle back you end up out of pocket but the money stays with Re-turn which, it says, is a not-for-profit which means it will ultimately be used to run the scheme.

 

[JoeRoberts]

So on what evidence are you suggesting that people lost interest in recycling?

Straw poll in the pub. But i selected those who could vote.

 

[Leo]

Straw poll in the pub. But i selected those who could vote.

OK, so perhaps refrain from making statements of fact based on that methodology in future.

 

[Fortune]

lot of people are to rich or busy to bother returning their drink cans.

Yet they still bring them to the recycling center. Weird

 

[JoeRoberts]

OK, so perhaps refrain from making statements of fact based on that methodology in future.

Still a valid factual statement

 

[Fortune]

Still a valid factual statement

Sample size too small, bias in selection process, survey not representative. Not a factual statement.

 

[JoeRoberts]

Not a factual statement.

How many does it have to be to be factual ?

 

[losttheplot]

Straw poll in the pub.

I hope it wasn't a plastic straw

 

[Leo]

Still a valid factual statement

Perhaps you should qualify it to make it clear you're just presenting the opinion of a few cranks and pretending that is representative of the population as a whole while conveniently ignoring the evidence that proves said cranks wrong.

 

[Persia]

Saw a customer scanning a 5 ltr bottle in Tesco today so presumably that sku is back on the pallets in the shops. (Roselawn Tesco).

 

[Purple]

Something like 15% of ReTurn eligible packaging is still ending up in the green bins.

I've never brought a plastic bottle back and I probably never will. I just put them in the green bin as I always have.

It has exactly the same environmental impact and I don't have to spend 10 minutes queue up behind some clown lifting their 2 year old up to put each bottle into the machine one at a time so that I can get €3 back. Life is too short. I also use very few plastic bottles and never use the small ones, though other members of my household do.

 

[Purple]

Buy Brita filters & jugs or install mains filters/softeners

Exactly. Why do people buy bottled water? It's a waste of money and bad for the environment.

 

[Cervelo]

A lot of people are to rich or busy to bother returning their drink cans.

Yeap, I see money bags has entered the room

I've never brought a plastic bottle back and I probably never will.

 

[Purple]

Yeap, I see money bags has entered the room

I fall into the busy category. Too many kids to be rich.

 

[mathepac]

Too many kids to be rich

Will I add TMKTBR to the abbreviations thread?

 

[Fortune]

Too many kids to be rich

Give the kids the cans and bottles as pocket money

 

[Purple]

Give the kids the cans and bottles as pocket money

There aren't enough cans and bottles in Christendom to cover that cost.