A consumer took a drastic measure to express his discontent with Ireland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), defecating in a bottle and submitting it to a reverse vending machine.
A disgruntled consumer defecated in a bottle and inserted it into a reverse vending machine as part of a dirty protest against the controversial Deposit Return Scheme ( DRS ), according to correspondence received by a government minister. In an email sent to Ossian Smyth, the outgoing minister responsible for the scheme, the man said he had placed “a large turd” inside a plastic bottle before inserting it into a machine – and got his 25 cent deposit back.
“I just wanted to let you know that I lodged a complaint about the ridiculous deposit return scheme by putting one of my own deposits in a reverse vending machine,” he wrote. “I put a large turd in a bottle and inserted it into the machine and listened as it squelched inside.” The man specified that he had used an Innocent juice container with a “wide spout” because earlier attempts with standard bottles had proven “messy and ultimately impossible” – “much like it often is trying to return bottles and cans at your machines”, he added. He claimed that the scheme had “enslaved” citizens to haul “stinking bottles and cans” back to vending machines, but admitted it was “a bit rich” for someone who had “just shat in a bottle” to complain about stinking containers. The complainant said bin companies had been forced to hike charges after the scheme had taken a valuable source of revenue away from them, and households were now paying the price. He also questioned the environmental merit of the scheme, claiming that “a whole extra fleet of waste collection trucks” were now on the road to collect and transport bottles and cans
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