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"I've had a few similar to the €18 definitely one batch was much more closer to €25 2 black bags gets you a lot more than you think. "
Jesus I need to step up my game, could almost use the 2 black bags to pack your shopping in too |
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"I normally get around €25 a week back
Part of the daily routine now
Hit petrol station on the way to work ,use machine and get a discount on my coffee "
Mother of god, are you watering a herd of buffalo with the bottles, or what? 
That's a hundred large bottles or 167 cans per week.
That's 14 large bottles or 24 cans per day.
Jaysus! |
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"I normally get around €25 a week back
Part of the daily routine now
Hit petrol station on the way to work ,use machine and get a discount on my coffee
Mother of god, are you watering a herd of buffalo with the bottles, or what?
That's a hundred large bottles or 167 cans per week.
That's 14 large bottles or 24 cans per day.
Jaysus! "
Hydration is key |
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By *og-ManMan 26 weeks ago
somewhere |
"I normally get around €25 a week back
Part of the daily routine now
Hit petrol station on the way to work ,use machine and get a discount on my coffee
Mother of god, are you watering a herd of buffalo with the bottles, or what?
That's a hundred large bottles or 167 cans per week.
That's 14 large bottles or 24 cans per day.
Jaysus! "
Family buy lots of cans as thats the way they like their drinks but they pay for their own
Company buys lots of large 2 ltr bottles of water for staff
I take all the empty bottles  |
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"I normally get around €25 a week back
Part of the daily routine now
Hit petrol station on the way to work ,use machine and get a discount on my coffee
Mother of god, are you watering a herd of buffalo with the bottles, or what?
That's a hundred large bottles or 167 cans per week.
That's 14 large bottles or 24 cans per day.
Jaysus!
Family buy lots of cans as thats the way they like their drinks but they pay for their own
Company buys lots of large 2 ltr bottles of water for staff
I take all the empty bottles "
Returning company bottles... Now that's what I call passive income! |
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By *og-ManMan 26 weeks ago
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"I normally get around €25 a week back
Part of the daily routine now
Hit petrol station on the way to work ,use machine and get a discount on my coffee
Mother of god, are you watering a herd of buffalo with the bottles, or what?
That's a hundred large bottles or 167 cans per week.
That's 14 large bottles or 24 cans per day.
Jaysus!
Family buy lots of cans as thats the way they like their drinks but they pay for their own
Company buys lots of large 2 ltr bottles of water for staff
I take all the empty bottles
Returning company bottles... Now that's what I call passive income!"
Its my company....taxman will probably come after me eventually |
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"I normally get around €25 a week back
Part of the daily routine now
Hit petrol station on the way to work ,use machine and get a discount on my coffee
Mother of god, are you watering a herd of buffalo with the bottles, or what?
That's a hundred large bottles or 167 cans per week.
That's 14 large bottles or 24 cans per day.
Jaysus!
Family buy lots of cans as thats the way they like their drinks but they pay for their own
Company buys lots of large 2 ltr bottles of water for staff
I take all the empty bottles
Returning company bottles... Now that's what I call passive income!
Its my company....taxman will probably come after me eventually "
Taxman? I thought that was a scary story mother's told to their children like the tv license inspector? |
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By (user no longer on site) 26 weeks ago
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I'm pretty sure a lot of offices or factories would be well north of €100 for this! Canteens etc but it should go back somehow into maybe a few drinks at Xmas party or something |
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By *astelloWoman 26 weeks ago
Far far away |
Once l started rummaging in the bins to see what students left behind..I reached a new low...
A well known bar in Killarney, changed the mixers to cans. Bills the customers for same and claims back... |
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By (user no longer on site) 26 weeks ago
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Not to brag but my 10 minute walk with a massive awkward bag and an awkward smaller bag of returns paid out a whopping 14.10. Would I walk through the estate again with them? No. But I do think it is somewhat working...alot of people are returning their bottles and cans. |
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"Once l started rummaging in the bins to see what students left behind..I reached a new low...
A well known bar in Killarney, changed the mixers to cans. Bills the customers for same and claims back... "
The whole thing is a myriad of ghost taxes, across the board! |
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"Not to brag but my 10 minute walk with a massive awkward bag and an awkward smaller bag of returns paid out a whopping 14.10. Would I walk through the estate again with them? No. But I do think it is somewhat working...alot of people are returning their bottles and cans. "
It's the new walk of shame 
I'm keeping my stats low cos I can't be dealing with standing at the machine for hours feeding it. |
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"Not to brag but my 10 minute walk with a massive awkward bag and an awkward smaller bag of returns paid out a whopping 14.10. Would I walk through the estate again with them? No. But I do think it is somewhat working...alot of people are returning their bottles and cans.
It's the new walk of shame
I'm keeping my stats low cos I can't be dealing with standing at the machine for hours feeding it."
The panic when you have to put your hand way in there to remove a dodgy bottle |
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By *iscuits8Man 26 weeks ago
Meath / Dublin / Birmingham |
The scheme just made me realise how little I used. Rarely drink fizzy drinks and very rarely have my beers from a can. Changed from bottled orange juice to cartons. Use tap water through a Brita filter/tap thing in the fridge. If I've even got a fiver back in total I'd be surprised. |
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By *eordie.Woman 26 weeks ago
The Sticks |
"Not to brag but my 10 minute walk with a massive awkward bag and an awkward smaller bag of returns paid out a whopping 14.10. Would I walk through the estate again with them? No. But I do think it is somewhat working...alot of people are returning their bottles and cans.
It's the new walk of shame
I'm keeping my stats low cos I can't be dealing with standing at the machine for hours feeding it.
The panic when you have to put your hand way in there to remove a dodgy bottle "
 the fear is real |
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By (user no longer on site) 26 weeks ago
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"Some shops have stock that must be sold by Friday night or withdraw from sale as it won't have the return barcode or symbol
So expect to see massive discounts "
Oh... Thank you  |
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"Just love when you arrive to lidl and they're both out of order, so you have to waddle back to the car to drop off your recycling before continuing with your shopping. Keeps your steps up."
Twice now |
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"I still haven’t used one! Think I have 3 things there to return since it all started. It seems that I avoid cans and plastic bottles fairly well. "
Gotta pop that cherry! It's a great experience haha |
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By *ergalMan 26 weeks ago
East Cork |
"Think 12.20 was the highest yet. My main issue is that I still forget to give them the receipt when I am at the checkout more often than not  "
Yep, have done that too, with €13 worth of returns |
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"I saw a thread on reddit this morning about this where a fella posted that he had got €18.15 back in one go. "
Me and my work mate returned that exact amount yesterday in cans and bottles...wondering if it was him ..can u send the reddit link . We had over 102 cans 60 odd bottles |
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"Family buy lots of cans as thats the way they like their drinks but they pay for their own
Company buys lots of large 2 ltr bottles of water for staff
I take all the empty bottles
Returning company bottles... Now that's what I call passive income!
Its my company....taxman will probably come after me eventually "
God, my head is reeling even just at the thought of that Benfit In Kind declaration for your morning coffees.  |
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Theese machines are a disgrace and actually add to carbon emissions instead of reducing!! Imagine the carbon cost of building the thousands of machines and putting hundreds of new bin lorry’s on Irish roads when most people were recycling theese very lightweight plastic and aluminium containers in their Green bins anyway! Add to that the fact they use paper receipts and need ink and need constant cleaning by staff as they stink. And also Add to this the fact they are not operating or functioning properly(Three from five visits the machine has not counted my containers correctly so the company has got my deposit but not returned my money) and also the fact wheelchair users cannot reach the return slot on the machines.
Another let down by the Irish government and another display of how idiots run our countr |
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"Just love when you arrive to lidl and they're both out of order, so you have to waddle back to the car to drop off your recycling before continuing with your shopping. Keeps your steps up."
Another possible unnecessary journey/ waste of peoples time too and a carbon output caused by this scheme. Making a car journey to a machine to find it out of order. |
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By *og-ManMan 22 weeks ago
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I have 2 Green bins in my house as we create so much recyclable rubbish
Since the scheme came in I keep a plastic bag in the car and bring it full of bottles and cans to the petrol station every day getting my coffee using the receipt from the machine
Its no hardship at all,part of the routine
This morning for the first time ever I didn't need to put any green bin out for collection |
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"I have 2 Green bins in my house as we create so much recyclable rubbish
Since the scheme came in I keep a plastic bag in the car and bring it full of bottles and cans to the petrol station every day getting my coffee using the receipt from the machine
Its no hardship at all,part of the routine
This morning for the first time ever I didn't need to put any green bin out for collection "
The one plastic bag of cans and bottles in the car surely didn’t save you from putting out 2 big Green wheelie bins of recycling. You must have cut down on all other recycling waste in the time since your last bin collection if you didn’t need to put your usual two Green bins out |
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By *og-ManMan 22 weeks ago
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"I have 2 Green bins in my house as we create so much recyclable rubbish
Since the scheme came in I keep a plastic bag in the car and bring it full of bottles and cans to the petrol station every day getting my coffee using the receipt from the machine
Its no hardship at all,part of the routine
This morning for the first time ever I didn't need to put any green bin out for collection
The one plastic bag of cans and bottles in the car surely didn’t save you from putting out 2 big Green wheelie bins of recycling. You must have cut down on all other recycling waste in the time since your last bin collection if you didn’t need to put your usual two Green bins out"
Yeah .....the brown boxes that normally get delivered every feckin day were very slow this month
But I used to fill one 240 ltr green bin with cans and bottles every two weeks
Now its just food cans and shampoo bottles with cardboard |
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I saw a guy collecting bottles after the last Munster match, he had 2 mammoth bags full of them, there was another person with a huge wheelbarrow doing it.
Good incentive for people to pick up trash. |
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By *rRiosMan 22 weeks ago
dublin |
"15c a unit does not incentivise me
I’ll keep just putting in recycle bin where I can
6 returns is less than €1…. Not worth the hassle"
I actually came in here to ask something similar. How many people, who wouldn’t normally recycled, are suddenly incentivise to do so based on this charge?
My guess would be that the vast majority of people who recycle in the machines are the people who would have recycled regardless |
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By (user no longer on site) 22 weeks ago
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"I saw a guy collecting bottles after the last Munster match, he had 2 mammoth bags full of them, there was another person with a huge wheelbarrow doing it.
Good incentive for people to pick up trash. "
At my work they have a coffee shop too! All the cans and bottles are left behind, but the charge is on them. There Is now 3 IBC cages full of them, it has to be a thousand euro worth, all back to the owners. Nice extra money spinner |
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"15c a unit does not incentivise me
I’ll keep just putting in recycle bin where I can
6 returns is less than €1…. Not worth the hassle
I actually came in here to ask something similar. How many people, who wouldn’t normally recycled, are suddenly incentivise to do so based on this charge?
My guess would be that the vast majority of people who recycle in the machines are the people who would have recycled regardless "
I recycle the same as always. If I drove I'd be tempted to use the machines but with not driving it isn't as straight forward :| |
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"I saw a thread on reddit this morning about this where a fella posted that he had got €18.15 back in one go.
I seen that this morning as well, God knows how many he had on hand haha"
That's about 121 cans |
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I got 17 euro back after my first 4 week collection. Besides the stress of some being rejected it was a fairly satisfying experience.
The massive downside is the fact that I had spent 170 euro minimum to buy those sugary drinks for myself and 2 kids 
We've substantially cut down since. Word has it that mineral / soft drink sales are way down since the initiative began. very possibly for the sane reason as we've cut down |
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