This weekend is a significant one for Ireland Deposit Return Scheme. Four months since the scheme's launch and the volume of returns has been increasing strongly.
A 2L bottle and a multipack of 6 x 750mls of water. A typical enough purchase in your local supermarket going into a bank holiday weekend.Given the substantial additional cost, it is no surprise that the Irish public have been going out of their way to return more and more drink containers to the country's 2,300 reverse vending machines .
In March the figure rose to 20m, by April it was 50 million and this past month the figure topped 75 million. Consumers complained that the machines would not accept some containers, or were not working, forcing them to take bags of plastic bottles and cans away again. Every year in Ireland up to 1.9 billion qualifying containers are sold. Sales rise and fall at different times of the year but averaged out over 12 months, you get 158 million drinks containers per month.The scheme is in its establishment phase, but we asked the company what percentage of containers sold are being returned by consumers and how much deposit money collected by the company has not been claimed back.
"Given the open-ended nature of Re-turn’s liability to redeem deposits, a return rate calculated over a short period will not provide accurate information on the scheme’s performance."Perhaps some further clues may come on 12 June when the company announces its new charity partnership.
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