An average of five million beverage bottles and cans are sold in Ireland daily
Only a fraction of containers bought under the Deposit Return Scheme have been brought back to vending machines, new figures show.
Re-turn, the company operating the scheme, yesterday revealed 21,018,360 containers had been returned since it launched on February 1.It said its highest daily collection rate was on Friday, March 29, with 1,267,178 plastic bottles and cans collected. More than 2.2million containers were returned over the long St Patrick’s weekend and similar figures are anticipated over Easter.
There are now 2,300 machines operational across the country and to date Re-turn has facilitated 6.89million transactions.
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