Millions of euros worth of customers' deposits remain unclaimed from the Deposit Return Scheme three months on since its introduction.
Millions of euros of customers deposits remain unclaimed from the Deposit Return Scheme three months on since its introduction.Since the scheme was introduced on 1 February, the Department of the Environment said over 76 million containers have been returned and more than €13m has been refunded in deposits.
Launching the scheme in November 2022, Minister of State Ossian Smyth said around 1.9 billion bottles and cans are used by consumers every year. That would indicate approximately 475 million bottles and cans have been bought by consumers in the three months since its introduction. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications said:"Since the Deposit Return Scheme went live on 1 February, over 76m containers have been returned and more than €13m has been refunded in deposits. Daily return rates are now reaching between 1.6m and 2.1m containers and will continue to rise.
"Given the open-ended nature of Re-Turn’s liability to redeem deposits, a return rate calculated over a short period will not yield good information as to the scheme’s performance. A spokesperson for its Dansk Retursystem said most Danes tend to return bottles and cans one to two times per month if they use a standard reverse vending machine.
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