Discussion | Beverage Container Return Scheme BCRS

[eeLoyH]

1 ctn of coca cola now need to pay additional $2.4 sen

does the price of aluminum warrant that much premium?


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Because it’s Singapore and we use cent not Sen as a reference

 

[arm4da]

every bottle drink tax 10cent leh.
sibei ho tan !

it's a deposit. tan simi?

 

[70niner]

1 ctn of coca cola now need to pay additional $2.4 sen

does the price of aluminum warrant that much premium?


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The 10 cents was never about the cost of the raw materials; it is just a refundable deposit

It's just like the $1 to unlock the shopping trolley, which u can get back later

 

[Heriophant]

1 ctn of coca cola now need to pay additional $2.4 sen

does the price of aluminum warrant that much premium?


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1 sen who the fck will return sia . How to have side income?

 

[Visor9999]

Cannot lah. Many people have to rely on scavenging income to survive in sg

 

[Visor9999]

Actually create more jobs tiokbo

What a brilliant idea by our gahmen

More scavenger jobs, to prepare for a post apocalyptic future

 

[Heriophant]

Just now moi queueing to return moi cans...

Then one couple finished drinking their can drinks and gave to one aunty in the line in front to get her $$...They walked off

Turns out, both cans no logo and she cannot claim. So she had to throw away their can drinks...

I think the couple did it purposely LOL

 

[galmongie]

Just have another bin next to the general one just for throwing cans/ bottles

 

[Itsnotfunny]

Might as well stand in front of the BCRS and they straight away recognised if u are serial scavenger or not.

 

[Visor9999]

Might as well stand in front of the BCRS and they straight away recognised if u are serial scavenger or not.

If can salvage 10million bottles over lifetime, instant millionaire. This is the best incentive for them

 

[zetraw]

Why need any deposit?

Have the machine and pay people $0.10 to recycle.

Wait.... it is not about recycling.

 

[buttbERry]

1 sen?

ts from msia?

 

[cosmothecat]

I propose 0.33 cents

 

[FORSTA]

lucky dont drink or buy soft drink. dont need to bother about this crap

 

[Joseph12]

Seems like their map system is down
Doesn't show status and location of machines

Was working like 1 hour ago

Well done

 

[Prime 13]

I suggest the reverse scheme.
When pple buyed, they buyed at a price with 10 cents discount.
They pay back the 10 cents from the discount when they return the can.
Sho even if the pple throw away the can the boomers wouldn't scavage as if they return it ish them who must pay 10 cents.

 

[Joseph12]

I start to see more ppl return bcrs .
Long Q at my SS supermart.

Behind ppl in the Qs all black face as usually each transaction take a long time gotta wait long

Shows what kind of person they are
Even the foreigner indian cleaners will give way

Some foreigners like work in restaurants etc won't give way
The road sweepers type won't give too

 

[Joseph12]

I suggest the reverse scheme.
When pple buyed, they buyed at a price with 10 cents discount.
They pay back the 10 cents from the discount when they return the can.
Sho even if the pple throw away the can the boomers wouldn't scavage as if they return it ish them who must pay 10 cents.

No idea what you getting at

 

[jeffprobst]

Sibei sian one. Someone want to recylce 1-2 cans but people in front machiam comb all table and rubbish, with big bags. Irritating max till just dun recycle.

Kns. One big bag but majority not accepted by machine. People behind waited to see his show.

 

[guile]

when they implemented this in Germany, they have several of these machines at their supermarkets and not just measly 1 per location like ours. so you don't have to wait so long even if others are hogging them.

Look at the number of machines they have at a big supermarket where the return rate will be higher. Problem in SG is, they didn't consider the amount of space this system will take up plus all the logistics needed to quickly collect and empty the machines when they are full. End up what we see is that at some supermarkets, the staff have to remove the full bags (as the bins are filled up quickly), replace the bags, and find a space to put the big plastic bags full of crushed plastics/can before the next collection date. So now you end up having these big smelly bags just lying around near the machines.

Our govt forget that our population density is so much higher than in Germany. Can see that they really didn't study the impact of implementing this too quickly and at such a short notice to completely stop the sale of non BCRS drinks. They should instead put a trial for half a year to study whether their system can cope first, gather feedback, tweak the system and ramp the number of BCRS machines at the hotspot areas before fully implementing it.

Maybe have an app as well that can show which ones are full so that ppl don't have to waste their trip. The CCTV they installed at every system? make it livestream too...then ppl can see which ones have long queues from the app and avoid them. With AI, can easily blur the faces of the ppl in the queue. With an app, they can also make the refunds go to your app account instead with an option to further be reimbursed to a CC, bank account, Paypal (for foreigners) or even the Healthy 365 points. or even to be scanned at any participating shops to offset your purchase. Make it friendly for all visitors as well.

Limiting to get your refund currently via just Simplygo Ezlink and DBS pay lah shows that our govt is only targetting the locals. And the reason why they didn't implement for F1.

The way it works in Germany is that the system will print a ticket with a barcode (like CDC vouchers but in smaller denominations instead), which you can either use to offset your next purchase or get cash refund at the cashier.