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Consumers embrace Ireland’s first bottle deposit return scheme | Recycling | The Guardian
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Wait what… Are you saying that Ireland didn’t have a bottle returning system before? What happened to all the bottles and cans before that? Did you just throw all of that in the trash?
Whenever I'm in a country without a cash deposit system on bottles and cans, I see so many of them just being thrown on the ground everywhere. It's worst outside of city centers where there is no regular clean up.
Yeah, with cash deposit the homeless cleans it up.
Or people just don't want to throw away their own money.
No we recycled them and recycle rates were really high. They just went in the green wheelie bin and were picked up every week or two.
I would be fine with the deposit scheme but the plastic bottles and aluminium cans all need to be in perfect condition / no squashing them down so they quickly start taking up a lot of space in our (busy) house then need a trip to the store followed by putting them in a scanning machine one by one where before we could just squish them and pop them in the green bin.
I'm not doing any more recycling but now I have a lot more effort unfortunately.
Also no glass in the scheme.
I'm honestly not a fan as someone who was recycling everything already.
Honestly, it's just made me buy less pointless soda and fuzzy water, just because it's a pain to deal with.
Good outcome I think
Ah, well at least there's now an incentive for someone to pick up any cans and plastic bottles left lying around outside. Some people in my town eke out a living off other people's carelessness.
As long as they're not squashed!