Recycle / Re-Turn


Daily Average of Drinks Containers returned in Months:

  • 69,000 containers a day in February
  • 670,000 containers a day in March
  • 1.7 million containers a day in April
  • 2.5 million containers a day in May
  • 3 million containers a day in June
  • 3.2 million containers a day in July
  • 3.6 million containers a day in August
3.6 million x .15c = €540k

No mention of how many containers, on average, are sold every day.

That’s a lot of bike sheds right there like
Not bad for a scheme that was never going work and be gone in a year!
 

Daily Average of Drinks Containers returned in Months:

  • 69,000 containers a day in February
  • 670,000 containers a day in March
  • 1.7 million containers a day in April
  • 2.5 million containers a day in May
  • 3 million containers a day in June
  • 3.2 million containers a day in July
  • 3.6 million containers a day in August
3.6 million x .15c = €540k

No mention of how many containers, on average, are sold every day.

That’s a lot of bike sheds right there like

That would buy one and a half Dail Éireann bike sheds
 

Daily Average of Drinks Containers returned in Months:

  • 69,000 containers a day in February
  • 670,000 containers a day in March
  • 1.7 million containers a day in April
  • 2.5 million containers a day in May
  • 3 million containers a day in June
  • 3.2 million containers a day in July
  • 3.6 million containers a day in August
3.6 million x .15c = €540k

No mention of how many containers, on average, are sold every day.

That’s a lot of bike sheds right there like
What overall percentage would have ended up in people’s domestic recycling anyway? It appears to blatantly leave that summation out.
I’d say it is in the high 90s percentile. What’s the carbon footprint of that level of return…any stats on that? No. No wonder the waste disposal companies are kicking up stink and upping their rates.
 
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