Dall’anno scorso abbiamo riciclato collettivamente 1,6 miliardi di bottiglie e lattine tramite regime di restituzione dei depositi
https://www.thejournal.ie/1-6-billion-bottles-and-cans-recycled-with-deposit-return-scheme-6773768-Jul2025/
di TeoKajLibroj
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Dammit, *warn* me when I’m going to need popcorn for a thread, man.
Key figures :
>Additionally, it says that recycling rates for beverage containers have risen from 49% to an estimated 91%, with 76% of containers recycled through the scheme and 15% collected via standard recycling bins.
The EU 2029 recycling target is 90% for PET bottles – we were *way* below that figure and now we’re exceeding it.
If it takes one second for every item inserted into the machine, that’s over 50 years of people’s time.
It’s 320 containers per person, give or take (incl small kids etc). I’m doing it for the family so I’ve probably deposited a thousand cans/bottles.
1000 seconds is 16.6 mins. With nuisance rejected cans and what have you, I’ve probably spent half an hour of my life on this over the last year… Honestly, it’s a good return for society and I’ve paid and gotten back like 150-200 quid…. Yeah, the system works. Damnit.
Great, now can we get a better system in place that doesn’t make you feed it one can at a time and can add money to your bank directly instead of a stupid paper receipt?
I like that we have but my kingdom for a machine I can just dump my bag into it and have it sort it and give me the receipt. By the time I have put them all in bottom first one. at. a. time. I’ll turn around the kids have half of Aldi on fire.
Doing some back of the envelope maths.
The estimate was the country used 1.9bn bottles and cans a year. (https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0201/1494143-deposit-return-scheme/)
The scheme has been going for 18 months (Feb 2024) and the report is saying 1.6bn have been received in that time. I work that out as a recycling rate of **56%**.
Edit: I see now that this is only their 2024 return, which for some reason hasn’t been published until July. There’s a good slide on page 7 showing the before and after return rates – 49% vs 81%. To be honest it’s a bit messy, I can’t figure out where the figure of 76% is coming from (their own report is 5% higher).
Why does it not accept non Return bottles? Ok they won’t pay out, but it’s all going to recyling, no?
wow. but how many had we done in the same period when there wasnt a scheme in place?
how many glass bottles do we recycle every year without needing scheme?
Still enjoying throwing plastic bottles off my balcony.
Before I used to recycle as normal but now I can just throw them off the balcony. For some reason they’re always gone in the morning?
So the loudmouth moaners adjusted just like they did when they had to adjust to smoking areas and paying 22c for a plastic bag.
It’s a con. Recycling is not the answer, oil-based plastics are the problem
Now for the moaners (lazy shits) who cant be arsed returning their bottles & cans to come out from under their rocks to say it’s a pointless idea.
No amount of correct maths will change their conspiracy based opinions though.
And if the 15c on each unit didn’t come directly from the consumer and go directly to the seller I’d be jumping for joy. Instead it’s a further albeit minor tax on us and more money in the pocket of the supermarket chains.
Machine says the container is to damaged and finally accepts it what it does ? It crushes it 🙈
Have they ever released info on where exactly the profit goes? I can’t find it anywhere. It’s an awful lot of money I’d imagine.
Absurd gesture politics. Replacing the non-existent problem of bottle litter with rummaged bins and ridiculous drives to energy inefficient bottle banks. One reason the greens got fired at the last election, dumb policies have consequences.
Petition to have a bin also placed to the recycling machines. Sick of seeing random nin-recycling cans stacked on top and in little piles around it.
Rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. Recycling plastic is a scam.
Now tell us how much diesel was pumped into the air from hundreds of cars driving these things to the shop.
I think where the scheme gets its real success is not from at home but the big events such as GAA matches
Young kids often collect 100 bottles after these games that would be left to waste otherwise
I’ve recycled the same amount of bottle and cans in the last 18 months as I did in the previous 18 months. It was much easier just putting my plastics and aluminium into my blue bin.