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The Deposit Return Scheme is an "inconvenience" we must "get used to," according to the CEO of Re-turn who operates the scheme.
On The Hard Shoulder today, Ciaran Foley said the scheme has got off to a “solid start,” recycling two million containers in February when it was first introduced.
There were some 200,000 containers collected in a single day alone on February 29th across 2,200 reverse vending machines available nationwide.
Mr Foley said the opening figures compare well to other countries.
"We model our scheme on the Slovakian scheme, which went live in 2022, as we have similar populations," he said.
“They redeemed 264,000 containers in their first month and we redeemed over two million so, looking at that comparison, we’ve made a really good start.
“That scheme two years on is now doing 93% redemption rates which is really encouraging for us.”
Mr Foley said the purpose of the scheme is to have a 90% recycling rate on plastic and aluminium containers by 2029 - as per an EU directive.
“We’re at about 55% to 60% now,” he said.
“When you consider we put about two billion of these products on the market in Ireland every year, the difference between 60% and 90% is about 600 million bottles that currently are not being recycled properly.
“Even worse, they are ending up on our streets, rivers and beaches.”
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