Pricewatch: More than 16 million containers have been returned already but some consumers are having difficulty finding working machines to take their returns
The deposit return scheme has been running for more than two months now but there are some readers out there who remain unimpressed with the turn of events, with discontent evident even among those who were ardent recyclers already.
As someone who has long taken “great care to make sure any drinks containers I use end up in the recycling bin” Eimear “wasn’t thrilled at the prospect of my usual recycling habits being made more complicated but as the goal is to improve recycling rates across the country, I figured I’d give the whole deposit return thing a go. Beside my rubbish bin, recycling bin, compost bin and glass bin now sits a dedicated drinks container bin.
The following day when she popped into her local convenience store – one that is part of a different chain – she “lugged my recycling in and was once again greeted with ‘Unavailable’ on the return machine. And that, dear Pricewatch, is how my attempts to recycle my drinks container continued for the last two months,” she says.
She accepts that “as with any new scheme, I can understand things may not work smoothly at first but I can’t comprehend how I’ve failed to find a single working return machine. As someone who has been fastidious in making sure recyclable materials end up in the correct bin, I now feel like I’m being charged a “deposit” just so the State can say it’s doing something about our country’s lacklustre recycling rates.
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