Now and again when the planning has gone wonky I find myself in Dunnes on a Sunday morning. Don’t worry I have usually gone to mass the evening before but it still isn’t right to be shopping on a Sunday. There I am, trundling through the frozen aisle on the day of rest deciding which frozen vegetable to buy as I am too lazy to buy the fresh ones and wash and prepare them, etc, etc. That’s bad enough.
What is even worse however is when I see ordinary men and women, mothers and fathers lining up with their plastic bottles ready to use the stupid Deposit Return Scheme. In Ireland one of things that the Clown Town Government demands you do is to return empty plastic bottles and cans under this scheme. The ordinary green recycling bins were not good enough, no.
Instead the Irish citizen now must store all their empty Coca-Cola bottles or Irun Bru cans or Raspberry Fanta or Cidona or Red Bull or Lilt (the totally tropical taste) or those energy monster drinks in their kitchen, where they smell and drip onto your kitchen floor. When the disgusting bag is full to the brim of disgusting empty cans and plastic bottles then you must bring said bag or some kind of larger bag and place them in the boot of your car where they drip all over the dry–cleaning and drive to Dunnes or some other shop.
Once you have found a parking space at the shop you must then carry or use a trolley to wheel your way with your massive bag of Coca–Cola cans to the ridiculous return machines. There you will queue (with the other idiots who have sacrificed their Sunday morning to participate in this degrading scheme) for ages and then finally, finally shove aforementioned bottles and cans one–by–one through the hole in the machine. Congratulations. You have earned back 15c and it only cost you your dignity.
STOP DOING THIS!
This scheme, I am quite convinced, was set up to humiliate the Irish voter. I can see them there in that asylum that passes for the executive in this country, Dail Eireann (no I’m not going to put in the fadas) thinking what will these fools consent to next? If they bought into the lockdown fandango and wore face masks outside on the beach, they’ll accept anything. So Our Great Overlords cooked up the deposit return scheme.
Not only do they require you to go through the humiliating routine to return your disgusting soft drink receptacle, they hold your money ‘in an account’ until you do so.
“From 1 February, 2024, when you buy a drink featuring the Re-turn logo, you will be charged a small deposit in addition to the price of the drink. The drinks containers included in the Scheme are PET plastic bottles and aluminum and steel cans between 150mls and 3 litres. A deposit of 15c will apply to containers from 150ml to 500ml inclusive and a deposit of 25c for containers over 500mls to 3 litres inclusive.”
This is a tax on your drink and a tax on your time.
Obviously I refuse to partake in this scheme. I put the few plastic bottles that make their way into this house in the green recycling bin. And the Irish government is just going to have to deal with it.
But, you say, you lose your ‘small deposit.’ Yes, dear reader I do lose my small deposit but what I gain is my dignity. More people should do it.
Sure enough here in Clown Town this has made a few people very rich. I will let Nick Delehanty, who I interviewed for the podcast this week and sought a nomination for President and the folks at the Sunday Business Post explain the latest scam courtesy of Our Great Governing Over Lords.
Mr Delehanty Tweeted:
“Re-Turn is a giant swindle on Irish consumers all under the guise of “Climate Change.” Five execs were paid €1.1million last year & the company is sitting on a cash pile of almost €50million.
Every cent that moves in and out of this company needs forensic scrutiny in public interest. How any political party can stand over the creation of a private entity operating this scheme is crazy.
This and Dídean Dochas are essentially the same scam but in different sectors.
All opposition should be united in calling these out.”
But we won’t get opposition parties doing anything about this. They are too busy talking about Gaza and the government are too busy talking about Gaza and sending a few millions of our Euros that way.
Instead we have the Presidential election which is between two candidates. One is the hard–left candidate Catherine Connolly who seems harmless but has a bad habit of hiring people with gun convictions from Ireland’s Special Criminal Court (this is the one they set up during The Troubles and sits without a jury) as employees. She is also having trouble deciding whether to turn the Presidential residence Áras an Uachtaráin (fadas in there, for balance) into a gigantic rehabilitation centre and might – or maybe might not – hire convicted rapists.
Last time I checked the security services in saner countries might have teensy–weensy problem with their head of state, be it I don’t know President Trump or King Charles visiting a country and a residence that is being used as a glorified rehabilitation centre for ex–cons with gun and rape convictions. Truly, we just cannot join the Commonwealth quickly enough if you ask me, which most people don’t.
Sure there is Prince Andrew–a security risk if ever there was one–but he is so far down that line of succession I’m not worried. And The Firm have always been and always will be ruthless enough to memory hole anyone deemed a threat to their survival.
Where was I? Stupid–ass Deposit Return scheme. Just stop drinking those disgusting drinks which are bad for you anyway and stop returning the cans and bottles. Enough.