Batsh*t Crazy Green Party

[Roxetten]

People should be discouraged from buying bottled water and minerals, in places like Cork city where everyone has access to safe drinking water on tap there is no justification for all the bottled water that is being bought.

I would put a punitive tax on bottled water to get consumers to give up that brainless habit.

 

[Drucker]

Only a complete and utter idiot would believe that a home recycling tax would encourage more recycling.

But maybe people are stupid.

So let's try and explain.

Today I buy a can of coke. Let's say I pay €1 for it. I use it, squash the can and place it in my recycling bin. It's then collected and recycled.

From January 2024, I will pay €1 for the same can of coke. But I will also be charged 15c deposit which I can have returned to me should I return the empty undamaged can to a retail store.

Should I continue to recycle at home, I lose the 15c.

Now, some of the batshit crazy green party reps and their misguided acolytes are using terms like "cash for trash," which merely goes to show how out of touch with reality they really are. And just as an aside, according to the new additional non refundable quango "Re-Turn dot IE" you will only get a refund if you return your "empty, undamaged drinks container."

So if you try to save space and make more room for recyclable material in your bin you will also lose the 15c you were charged so that the batshit crazy Green Party and their crony quango can set up another recycling stream for one specific type of recyclable waste.

This is nothing more than a tax on home recycling in order to pay for Green Party cronies in an all new quango.



And to misquote a well known soft drinks advertising slogan:

"You know when you've been Quangoed."


Or at least some of us do.........

 

[TheEarlofPearl]

Happy days bringing bottles back to the shop for a few pence, I agree it is a great idea, Will all retailers have to provide a bin for this,
Will it be a case of putting in your bottle and getting a coin through the machine?

Of course it is and it will get people picking up plastic bottles dumped all over the place. Beaches and parks will be a nice little earner especially for kids and yes retailers will have locations. As I said earlier only an idiot would be against it.

 

[Drucker]

Middle aged middle class Green Party acolytes welcome this new home recycling tax as it will encourage the homeless to collect cans and bottles and give them something to do.

San Francisco here we come!!


The batshit crazy Green Party hates the homeless.

 

[SoundMan]

Younger people, who have their whole lives ahead of them, fear climate change more than old folks who are headed for the great gig in the sky, why would that surprise anyone?

Note that it's the oldest posters on here, such as SoundMan & Drucker, who are the most hostile to the green movement.

Your ageist BS aside I think you should recognise a few facts
Tomorrow is promised to nobody, of any age. It's a rather silly trope to try push, shur the old are against, in fact hostile to, the green movement.

I'm in favour of realistic ways of reduce, reuse, and recycle. I'm not against the green movement, much less hostile to it. What I'm against is the self-servers like Eamon Ryan virtue signaling while trying to make a political acumen out of what right thinking people would likely be doing anyway.

There were "green" activists long before Ryan saw it as being a way of feathering his own nest. That's why he's despised by many who're a lot greener than most.

If Eamon Ryan had the choice between doing something good for the planet and doing something good for Eamon Ryan he'd opt for the latter each and every time.

 

[SoundMan]

Of course it is and it will get people picking up plastic bottles dumped all over the place. Beaches and parks will be a nice little earner especially for kids and yes retailers will have locations. As I said earlier only an idiot would be against it.

Not that many plastic bottles festooning any of the various beaches I've been on tbh. Yes it'll mean the cans and plastic bottles will be returned but there are other forms of plastic in societal use. Thankfully with the plastic bin reduction (in fairness to Micheal Martin I think that came in on his watch) our beaches are much better than they were. But the guaranteed income to a quango does seem a bit dodgy. Are there links between the guy at the head of it and the Greens and/or Ryan?

 

[TheEarlofPearl]

What I'm against is the self-servers like Eamon Ryan virtue signaling while trying to make a political acumen out of what right thinking people would likely be doing anyway.

There were "green" activists long before Ryan saw it as being a way of feathering his own nest. That's why he's despised by many who're a lot greener than most.

If Eamon Ryan had the choice between doing something good for the planet and doing something good for Eamon Ryan he'd opt for the latter each and every time.

Absolute nonsense, you might not agree with policies but denying him being a green activist feathering his own nest is poppycock. He set up a cycling holiday company when he was 26.

 

[SoundMan]

Absolute nonsense, you might not agree with policies but denying him being a green activist is poppycock. He set up a cycling holiday company when he was 26.

Guy who owns bike shop sets up a cycling holiday company to rent bikes SHOCKA!!!!!!!!

 

[TheEarlofPearl]

Not that many plastic bottles festooning any of the various beaches I've been on tbh. Yes it'll mean the cans and plastic bottles will be returned but there are other forms of plastic in societal use. Thankfully with the plastic bin reduction (in fairness to Micheal Martin I think that came in on his watch) our beaches are much better than they were. But the guaranteed income to a quango does seem a bit dodgy. Are there links between the guy at the head of it and the Greens and/or Ryan?

A not for profit company seems dodgy?

 

[SoundMan]

A not for profit company seems dodgy?

Depends on what kind of salaries are being taken from those at the top and whose pals they are.