Deposit Return: 21 million containers returned since start of scheme

Re-turn recorded its highest daily collection rate to date on Friday, March 29th, with 1.2 million drink containers returned.

More than 2.2 million drink containers were collected between March 16th and March 18th, with Re-turn predicting another uptake in returns this Bank Holiday weekend., which added a small levy to bottles and cans that can then be refunded when the empty container is returned, was launched on February 1st.reported this week that just €1.

Around five million bottles and cans are sold in Ireland every day and the minister in charge of the scheme, Ossian Smyth has previously said around €1 million in deposits should be collected every day.Neither shops nor Re-turn are allowed to keep unclaimed deposits, with the unclaimed cash due to be used for new recycling initiatives.

The company also said its returns is “tracking well against similar deposit return schemes in the EU”, such as Slovakia."We've made a brilliant start - we're up to a million a day now, we only did two million in the whole of February," he said."This is a low time in the market in terms of these drinks; it's about to go gangbusters in the summer," he added.

Containers that do not have the new Re-turn logo but have the additional charge can still be returned to shops and machine.

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