Call for charities to be allowed run their own bottle Re-turn Schemes
May 7, 2024
Call for charities to be allowed run their own bottle Re-turn Schemes
by jklynam
18 comments
I’m guessing the theory being that people donate their plastic bottles and give up the 15c they paid.
>Call for charities to be allowed run their own bottle Re-turn Schemes
I don’t fully understand this one. Do you need permission to collect bottles from people?
How would they need to “be allowed”? Can charities not just arrange this themselves?
Gotta pay those management wages somehow.
If there was any doubt in your mind that this scheme was created as a form of state welfare for the wealthy friends of FFG, this should remove it.
In our work canteen there’s a seperate bin for return bottles with all proceeds going to our nominated charity for the year. Seems like a great idea considering the amount of people are going out on their lunch buying cans/bottles everyday and wouldn’t be bothered to take them home.
Why not just put a donation box beside the machines instead of collecting the bottles?
Feels like they’re over engineering an already over engineered solution.
Happy to put it all in my green bin if they want and come and take it /s
In Denmark they had a button where you could give up the amount to be refunded to charity
Probably the only way I would participate in this scheme. I think it would be a good / easy way to donate to charity.
A charity would need ~6,666 bottles to raise €1,000 of funding. So, now you have to factor in a staffer or volunteer spending hours putting the bottles through a machine / manually checking them to raise a “mere” €1,000. If it takes me 2-3 mins to do ~24 cans, that’s several hours of work to raise €1,000.
More money for charity CEO’s yaay.
The excess money going to the operator should have be the end of the entire project, it shows Fine Gael’s malice.
Call for bottle return schemes to die – me
Still doesn’t solve the problem of having to bring the cans to the charity shop with a huge potential for the machine to be out of order? I cannot imagine a charity shop wants potentially 1000s of cans/bottles that won’t work in the machine?
I’d gladly do this, there are more charity shops near me than re-turn locations.
If you return say €5 worth of bottles to a machine, do you then have to go into that shop and purchase €5 or more worth of stuff to claim back the voucher?
Not worth even the calories I burn to go to the shop to return
To pay their CEO’s 250k and the people returning minimum wage
Absolutely God damn not. Charities in this country are money pits anf run by rip off arse bags.
18 comments
I’m guessing the theory being that people donate their plastic bottles and give up the 15c they paid.
>Call for charities to be allowed run their own bottle Re-turn Schemes
I don’t fully understand this one.
Do you need permission to collect bottles from people?
How would they need to “be allowed”?
Can charities not just arrange this themselves?
Gotta pay those management wages somehow.
If there was any doubt in your mind that this scheme was created as a form of state welfare for the wealthy friends of FFG, this should remove it.
In our work canteen there’s a seperate bin for return bottles with all proceeds going to our nominated charity for the year. Seems like a great idea considering the amount of people are going out on their lunch buying cans/bottles everyday and wouldn’t be bothered to take them home.
Why not just put a donation box beside the machines instead of collecting the bottles?
Feels like they’re over engineering an already over engineered solution.
Happy to put it all in my green bin if they want and come and take it /s
In Denmark they had a button where you could give up the amount to be refunded to charity
Probably the only way I would participate in this scheme. I think it would be a good / easy way to donate to charity.
A charity would need ~6,666 bottles to raise €1,000 of funding. So, now you have to factor in a staffer or volunteer spending hours putting the bottles through a machine / manually checking them to raise a “mere” €1,000. If it takes me 2-3 mins to do ~24 cans, that’s several hours of work to raise €1,000.
More money for charity CEO’s yaay.
The excess money going to the operator should have be the end of the entire project, it shows Fine Gael’s malice.
Call for bottle return schemes to die – me
Still doesn’t solve the problem of having to bring the cans to the charity shop with a huge potential for the machine to be out of order? I cannot imagine a charity shop wants potentially 1000s of cans/bottles that won’t work in the machine?
I’d gladly do this, there are more charity shops near me than re-turn locations.
If you return say €5 worth of bottles to a machine, do you then have to go into that shop and purchase €5 or more worth of stuff to claim back the voucher?
Not worth even the calories I burn to go to the shop to return
To pay their CEO’s 250k and the people returning minimum wage
Absolutely God damn not. Charities in this country are money pits anf run by rip off arse bags.