Everyone will be able to monitor its success or failure by the number of cans or bottles littering the landscape
for plastic bottles and aluminium cans. Many people attempting to use the new reverse vending machines which have been installed in retail outlets across the country complain the machines are often full or not working. Stories of frustration at multiple failed attempts to recycle have been widespread.
The company’s chief executive accepted this week that issues remain with the machines, which provide receipts for 10 to 25 cent per item that can be exchanged for cash at store tills. Some retailers may not yet be emptying the machines as promptly as they should, but Re-Turn is confident this will improve, and the machines will reach the European average of being operational 95 per cent of the time .
Teething problems were probably inevitable. To meet its targets, the scheme needs to prompt a major shift in Irish attitudes towards the disposal of waste. While similar initiatives have been in place for decades in many other European countries, Irish consumers are not familiar with deposit return schemes. Many are likely to believe they were already recycling by using their own domestic green bins. But the reality is that much of that waste ends up in incinerators .
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