Dublin Airport has ‘no plans’ to install return scheme machines despite its shops charging deposits on bottles and cans

by RealDealMrSeal

16 comments

  1. The retailers are legally obligated to take back bottles as they’re in the scheme.

  2. Honestly, if someone’s leaving Dublin, chances are they’re not gonna use those return vouchers. Even if going for a short break, who’s gonna keep a 15 cent voucher?

    Ideally, they shouldn’t charge in Dublin airport at all, because I’m assuming recycling would already be pretty well done inside a closed airport.

  3. On the one hand travelling is probably the place where you see the largest amount of people failing to recycle, on the other hand anyone arriving in to the country with drink containers will likely have something that can’t be deposited and people who aren’t already living in our system are likely to be unaware of it and therefore not use it even if it was there.

    Charging the deposit or not shouldn’t matter as to whether they have a machine though, thet don’t get an exemption on the cost of it from the supplier side.

  4. The entire scheme is stupid beyond any reasonable application.

    I was an avid recycler before this was introduced. My domestic waste each week was carefully divided, recycling washed properly, etc.

    Now I find it significantly more difficult to recycle certain items. It got to the point of inconvenience where I made it a point to simply not purchase any product that has the surcharge on it anymore. I guess you could call that a win for the environmental aspect?

    I’m only buying bottled beer now.
    I wonder if it’s more or less environmentally sound with the work required recycling them.

  5. This system is stupid as fuck, I’ve stopped buying products that are in this scheme.

  9. What a totally shyte scheme!
    Opt out should come with a hefty fee. Time to tax the plastic manufacturers profits, not the end users

  10. They should set up a charity donation point(s) where you can drop them off and then the charity can get the deposit.

  11. I wonder would an agreement made with other countries that have return schemes be possible. The inverse is also true if I fly from Germany for example, I can’t get the pfand back on those bottles. So hypothetically our machines could accept their bottles and cans

  12. A reusable, stainless steel water bottle is an incredibly effective way to stay hydrated on the go. You can get pints in the airport too!

  14. Dublin airport was charging deposits even when there were no barcodes, all automated tills and none of the few staff knew or were interested in the issue.

  15. Now this is where the government should step up and in.
    Dublin airport already has a bad reputation in lots of categories.

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