Recycling (bottle) vouchers can't be recycled :(

[watty]

I sometimes wonder if the people who run this country need help putting on their trousers in the morning 

16 million vouchers from recycling machines are not recyclable, Re-turn admits

Vouchers dispensed by reverse vending machines as part of the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) are not made from recycled paper and cannot be recycled, the company responsible for the environmental initiative has confirmed.

More than 15.9 million vouchers had been issued under the scheme by July 9. Laid end-to-end, these printed tickets would span the distance between Ireland and Canada. A voucher is issued each time a consumer returns bottles or cans to any of more than 2,300 reverse vending machines located across Ireland. People can then hand their vouchers into certain retail outlets to reclaim their deposits.

The DRS was introduced last February as a circular economy initiative, based on the reuse and regeneration of materials, with a view to reducing waste and increasing recycling. On its website, the company behind the scheme, Re-turn, says the DRS aims to move away from the “take, make and dispose” culture, and “reduce litter and waste nationwide”, creating “a cleaner, more sustainable Ireland”.  “Everyone in Ireland has the opportunity to play their part in leading us towards a more sustainable future by valuing our resources and increasing recycling rates,” it adds.

It’s not the first time that the environmental merits of the controversial scheme have been questioned. Complaints from members of the public received by the minister responsible for the DRS have repeatedly pointed out that
--  making people drive to shops with returnable containers instead of using household recycling bins increases carbon emissions. 
--  They have also noted that a fleet of Re-turn lorries are now on the roads, collecting cans and bottles from reverse vending machines,
--  while domestic waste collectors are still travelling on their same routes.

Meanwhile, waste collectors have warned that they will have to increase bin charges to compensate for losses as a result of high-value plastic bottles and aluminium cans being removed from household waste.

[silverbullet]

I sometimes wonder if the people who run this country need help putting on their trousers in the morning 

16 million vouchers from recycling machines are not recyclable, Re-turn admits

Vouchers dispensed by reverse vending machines as part of the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) are not made from recycled paper and cannot be recycled, the company responsible for the environmental initiative has confirmed.

More than 15.9 million vouchers had been issued under the scheme by July 9. Laid end-to-end, these printed tickets would span the distance between Ireland and Canada. A voucher is issued each time a consumer returns bottles or cans to any of more than 2,300 reverse vending machines located across Ireland. People can then hand their vouchers into certain retail outlets to reclaim their deposits.

The DRS was introduced last February as a circular economy initiative, based on the reuse and regeneration of materials, with a view to reducing waste and increasing recycling. On its website, the company behind the scheme, Re-turn, says the DRS aims to move away from the “take, make and dispose” culture, and “reduce litter and waste nationwide”, creating “a cleaner, more sustainable Ireland”.  “Everyone in Ireland has the opportunity to play their part in leading us towards a more sustainable future by valuing our resources and increasing recycling rates,” it adds.

It’s not the first time that the environmental merits of the controversial scheme have been questioned. Complaints from members of the public received by the minister responsible for the DRS have repeatedly pointed out that
--  making people drive to shops with returnable containers instead of using household recycling bins increases carbon emissions. 
--  They have also noted that a fleet of Re-turn lorries are now on the roads, collecting cans and bottles from reverse vending machines,
--  while domestic waste collectors are still travelling on their same routes.

Meanwhile, waste collectors have warned that they will have to increase bin charges to compensate for losses as a result of high-value plastic bottles and aluminium cans being removed from household waste.

Apologies in advance to RC for quoting your quote and part copying and pasting a section of it:

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Meanwhile, waste collectors have warned that they will have to increase bin charges to compensate for losses as a result of high-value plastic bottles and aluminium cans being removed from household waste.

The remainder of the waste I assume will still be shipped to Malaysia to be burned in the open there?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/28/treated-like-trash-south-east-asia-vows-to-return-mountains-of-rubbish-from-west

[watty]

I think we have our own incinerators in Ringsend a Dublin nature reserve, Duleek, and Cork?

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Meanwhile, waste collectors have warned that they will have to increase bin charges to compensate for losses as a result of high-value plastic bottles and aluminium cans being removed from household waste.

If you want to use less space in future, just quote the whole thing and delete the bit inside you don't want?

[silverbullet]

I think we have our own incinerators in Ringsend a Dublin nature reserve, Duleek, and Cork?

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Meanwhile, waste collectors have warned that they will have to increase bin charges to compensate for losses as a result of high-value plastic bottles and aluminium cans being removed from household waste.

If you want to use less space in future, just quote the whole thing and delete the bit inside you don't want?

Nah, annoying RC is an amusing sideline. Thanks anyway.

[watty]

I think we have our own incinerators in Ringsend a Dublin nature reserve, Duleek, and Cork?

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Meanwhile, waste collectors have warned that they will have to increase bin charges to compensate for losses as a result of high-value plastic bottles and aluminium cans being removed from household waste.

If you want to use less space in future, just quote the whole thing and delete the bit inside you don't want?

Nah, annoying RC is an amusing sideline. Thanks anyway.

 

[Rat Catcher]

Hardly annoying, SB. One doesn't have to read the quoted material. However, if believing it to be annoying satisfies some void in your life, providing that facility is doing you some service, I guess. You're welcome.

[Cool Boola]

It seemed to go down well in other countries.Are they doing it better?

[Rat Catcher]

I'm not sure what doing it well equates to. In my experience Tesco do it better than Lidl i.e. one rarely has to queue to use Tesco's machines whereas queuing seems to be the norm at Lidl. Then there's the financial question... what monetary value is placed on whatever increase in the recycling of tins this scheme has achieved and how much does the firm processing the tins trouser?

[silverbullet]

Hardly annoying, SB. One doesn't have to read the quoted material. However, if believing it to be annoying satisfies some void in your life, providing that facility is doing you some service, I guess. You're welcome.

Two words sum up the majority of your posts' anal retentive. Np offence.

[Rat Catcher]

Regardless of it's addictive nature, reading the internet or any part thereof is, in fact, optional.

Notwithstanding the above please accept my apologies... unless, of course, you have in fact derived some form of fulfillment from (commenting upon) the same... in which case, you're welcome!

[watty]

No Re-turn machines in Dublin Airport leads man to bring two plastic bottles on 10,000 mile trip for 50c

A man brought two plastic bottles on a 10,000-mile round trip to Asia in order to reclaim 50 cent under the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) because there are no reverse vending machines in Dublin Airport, the Irish Mirror can reveal.

The disgruntled passenger wrote to the minister responsible for the scheme on July 2, informing him of the transnational odyssey that began when he bought two bottles of water from Boots in Terminal 1. He told Green Party Minister Ossian Smyth that he had taken the two empty bottles with him to Asia, and brought them back in his baggage so he could recycle them upon his return to Ireland.

There are no reverse vending machines located at Dublin Airport. WHSmith and Boots operate manual return points, but these require passengers to return to the shopping area and queue up again.

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No Re-turn machines in Dublin Airport leads man to bring two plastic bottles on 10,000 mile trip for 50c

A man brought two plastic bottles on a 10,000-mile round trip to Asia in order to reclaim 50 cent under the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) because there are no reverse vending machines in Dublin Airport, the Irish Mirror can reveal.

The disgruntled passenger wrote to the minister responsible for the scheme on July 2, informing him of the transnational odyssey that began when he bought two bottles of water from Boots in Terminal 1. He told Green Party Minister Ossian Smyth that he had taken the two empty bottles with him to Asia, and brought them back in his baggage so he could recycle them upon his return to Ireland.

There are no reverse vending machines located at Dublin Airport. WHSmith and Boots operate manual return points, but these require passengers to return to the shopping area and queue up again.

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An awful of the Boots working in Terminal One are in the cosmetics section.