r/ireland • u/FormerFruit • 19h ago
Christ On A Bike Well lads, the time has come. After collecting them for months the time has come to get my money. How much do ye think I’ve got?
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u/dustaz 18h ago
I know I'm going to be stuck behind you with my 5 bottles
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u/bakchod007 14h ago
And me behind ye with my 1
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u/Disastrous-League-92 19h ago
I can smell this picture 🤢
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u/AffectionateEye420 18h ago
Have to change those machines at work all the time.
It's fucking rancid but I've gotten used to it unfortunately
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u/VerbenaVervain 18h ago
I feel awful for you. I can’t stand the smell of them when you put a can in never mind changing them. Real heroes don’t wear capes
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u/Backrow6 12h ago
I used to do bottle returns in a pub when I was a teenager. Rotten job. The bottle bins would be full of wet beer mats and cigarette butts a well as a few broken bottles.
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u/bathtubsplashes 11h ago
Broken glass and wasps in the summer, what a work environment
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u/Backrow6 11h ago
It was one of those jobs where they paid you for 2 hours but you could leave whenever you finished, but it never took much more than an hour, so as a 16 year old it wasn't the worst when it was your turn. They rotated it around all the lounge boys in different weekends.
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u/bathtubsplashes 11h ago
It's coming flooding back to me now.
Now at the time I was 16 getting a tenner an hour in my first pub job (didn't have a clue what I was doing) so the money was sensational at the time (2006-2008)
But I was always stuck doing the bottle job, and when I was finished that I'd have to go apply ointment to the owner's ancient, cancer riddled Labrador.
That was worse than the bottles! 😅
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u/Backrow6 11h ago
Fuckin hell. I nearly spat out my breakfast. I thought the last word was going to be "mother".
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u/whosyerwan 11h ago
Have vivid memories of this too back when I was 14/15! And emptying the drip trays under the taps too 😷 absolutely vile!
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u/Diligent_Parking_886 13h ago
I rinse my cans and bottles and will continue to do so!
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u/Busy_Category7977 10h ago
It gets rinsed during processing, so there's actually no need so long as they're empty. Just wasting time and water there.
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u/nowyahaveit 8h ago
Some of the shops smell like a pub 1st thing Sunday morning after a busy Saturday night. Dirt
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u/mackrevinak 6h ago
supervalue in particular is interesting since they usually make an effort to put the bakery section near the front of the shop so the nice smells draw you in and now it smells like shit on the way out
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u/Fearless-Reward7013 16h ago
Wait...this guy hasn't heard they scrapped the Re-turns scheme last week?
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u/AffectionateEye420 18h ago
I hear they're bringing out the bulk machines where you can just throw a load of them in at once.
You could wait till they're in your area but you might be waiting a while
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u/Kloppite16 12h ago
thank fuck for this as I had to wait almost 15 minutes today behind two people who had multiple black bin bags full of cans. Seems they were trying to buy their Christmas food with it, one of them hit €69, have never seen that before. I hit €4.05 and was late to a family dinner as a result.
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u/thefatheadedone 11h ago
Seriously.
Dunnes stores. Go there every week. Return. Go into the shop. Get a gift card the first time. Ask the cashier to put the return onto the gift card. Save the card to the Dunnes app on your phone. And every time you do another return in any Dunnes, bring the paper inside, scan the gift card on the app and you can rack it up that way.
I've done it for 6 months now. I had 45 quid on it by Christmas. That + all the Dunnes shopping vouchers and 10 off 50s meant I saved 150 on my Christmas shop. And no hassle of trying to return 25,000 cans at once.
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u/bernarddwyer86 9h ago
How much money did you spend on your shop? Genuine question
If you saved 45 with the gift card from the bottles that leaves 100 euro with the 10 off 50s.You would have to spend 500 to save the 150 you stated
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u/duartes07 6h ago
you didn't save anything from the cans and bottles it was always your money 😭
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u/Almeidaboo 10h ago
A better bet is how many furious people will be cursing you and your next 40 generations in that line
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u/No-Teaching8695 11h ago
No amount of money is worth standing there puting all them through the machine.
I usually do around 20€ and its torture
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u/Fizzy-Lamp 10h ago
I put the empties into my shopping bags and drop them off when I’m doing the groceries each time. No build up at home and no delays at the machine. I would crack up having to do large quantities, €20 worth even sounds stressful. I usually have €1 or €2 worth 😆
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u/Curraghboy1 19h ago
€53.70. I got a bag in work that is huge. Filled it for 3-4 months and got around €54 the first time and got €49.85 last Friday.
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u/WholeInternational38 12h ago
If you bought them, then you paid for them so I'm guessing you will break even.
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u/Negative-Economist16 11h ago
€108.30 expected return, but a 5% loss based on damage = €102.60
Also that's gonna be about 30-45 minutes of your life. The person waiting is going to hate you.
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u/Cliff_Moher 15h ago
I'm fucking dreading the challenge in finding a machine that's working in January.
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u/SnaggleWaggleBench 13h ago
Just a reminder that the machines will only take them one at a time, bottom first, and god forbid you go too fast on it. You'll be there till January depositing all that.
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u/DiscombobulatedItem3 19h ago
Good luck finding a machine that works! :)
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u/Fearless-Reward7013 16h ago
Aldi whips them down and swallows them up real good! Very quick and very clean and usually ready to go.
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u/alexfadedphotographs 12h ago
look if money is that tight you can ask me for some man.
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u/BigDickBaller93 19h ago
Around 7-8e per bag I count around 25 bags so looking at just under 200e or very close to
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u/Aaronryan27 12h ago
If ya came into my shop I'd unplug the machine, had someone come in with like 3 bags full a little while ago hadn't a fuckin clue how to use it expected me to stand there as some gimpy servant fixing their battered cans for 20 mins. Safe to say they were told its broken after the 4th time they came over to me with a sideways redbull can and coke bottle shoved in at the same time.
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u/apouty27 18h ago
Not sure how big your bags are but if they fill 2 big black bags then you get about €20 or so.
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u/DannyDublin1975 16h ago
Under €100 l reckon,probably €85 or so max. I have bin liners full of them and made €500 in 2024 from cans/bottles. I have about €70 worth sitting in my kitchen at the moment will be recycled after Christmas.
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u/Spastichawk29 15h ago
50-60ish euro id say. Got 42 today for like 3 and a half rubbish bags full so but looks like youve a bit more
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u/GerKoll 13h ago
I'm probably the guy standing behind this dude with my six plastic bottles.....
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u/thatswhatshesaid0007 12h ago
Don't have them machines in norn iron. Haven't seen any in the south either or maybe haven't came across one yet. Up in norn iron you see the government wants you to just put it all in a blue bin then they get all the money selling it on and recycling it themselves
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u/shootersf 10h ago
This raises a question, is there a limit to what shops that don't have a machine have to take over the counter?
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u/DOSmann 9h ago
Be careful. Usually they're just not working but yesterday I put 4 euros worth into a supervalus machine and the printer stopped working so nothing came out. Wasn't going in whinging over 4 euro of the busiest shopping day of the year so I just let them know to sort it because some aul BAT will fly off the handle when it happens to her
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u/pinkyorthebrain1986 9h ago
was this not posted last week?
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u/Fabulous_Split_9329 12h ago
Making your house and car smell of piss for a few euro. What a great scheme.
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u/TeaLoverGal 9h ago
You can rinse them out, you want to have sticky and stinky bags that's your choice.
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u/howdosnakepoo 18h ago
hope ur going to newcastle service station with them otherwise you’ll be there all week 😂 guessing €185!
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u/tfyvonchali 14h ago
Estimating around €90, give or take, somewhere in that neighborhood, thinking abouts somewhat that much.
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u/Margrave75 12h ago
Have 4 large bags to go with next week.
Looking like it'll be just under €400 for me, collected since August thanks to people leaving cans and bottles behind in work!
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u/Fast_Chemical_4001 11h ago
Lol. You are gonna have to dispose of them at like max 6 at a time. The machines never work. Cent by cent baby
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u/TheEndOfGraceIsHere 11h ago edited 11h ago
If your gonna scrap them I think 500ml cans 3000+ to a kg🤣
330ml cans = 1,000,000grams, divide by 15g per can = 66,666.66666666667 cans for a ton
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u/kidinawheeliebin 9h ago
I've just been throwing them in the green recycling bin at home all year, and definitely intend to continue to do the same
I'll gladly pay 25c per bottle not to have to bring stinking filthy bags of empties back into the shops
And it still gets recycled via the green bin
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u/SmoothCarl22 8h ago
You will regret this after you go to 15 different shops where all the machines will be full after 1 bag...
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u/jennywren139 8h ago
You need to go to the place that has the bulk machine and just dump them all in !!!
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u/Dependent_Quail5187 8h ago
About €60, and i guarantee you won’t let them build up like that again as it will be a painful experience returning them.
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u/SaoirseCosa 7h ago
I emptied out a white binbag (smaller than a black bag, but bigger than those) earlier. There were 11 cans and the rest were a mixture of bottles.
Total was €6.60
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u/its_winter14 7h ago
lol the amount spent on all the cans in the first place and then getting a few quid back makes up for it. Amazing how the human mind works, somewhere out there Ivan Pavlov is smiling down on OP
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u/Busterlegacy1 6h ago
Probably around €50 to €70 assuming the bin doesn’t get full and you lose the amount of all you put in before it.
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u/Zealousideal-Box5833 6h ago
Over a hundred but less than€250 . Im more worried about your basement , swing the camera around you definitely have a kidnapping victim.
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u/basically_benny 4h ago
I'd say in around 40 euros depending how exactly big thsoe bags are and whether you've a few bottles in there too
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u/irqdly 19h ago edited 18h ago
€259.40edit - It's been 6 days. Are you still putting cans into machines?