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I just returned 2 bottles but the machine mark it as cans. Probably the plastic bin is full but not the cans. New software update to decrease rate of servicing in hot areas? Hehe
 
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Now those shiat machines are always hogged by people holding bags of bottles. Unless you have lots of time to slowly wait, toss in bin faster.
 
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You go lunch, buy a can of drink and finish up your lunch. Walk to machine, find long queue or 2 auntie/uncle with 4 bags. You wait or bring back?

Wait. So need to factor in machine return time and also can only eat around places with machine.

Go back office with dirty can. Wash in toilet and keep at office. So bring back home or bring to machine the next day?

Bring back home. So along the way home, decide to detour to machine. Done.

But 1 day out of 1 month, no time to detour, coz want to party with friend, how to bring 1 empty along.

So keep at office. Next day, go eat same places near machine and return. Bring an empty can and buy a can of drink, 2 cans, 20 cents. Woohoo.

Colleagues say dont go same place eat lah, so may end up with 3 empty cans in office. Finally going to places with machine, bring a bag of cans and take back money.


OR, once a day, make going to machine a part of daily life. sometime vist the machine 2 or 3 times a day depending how many meals are taken outside.


Headline: Singaporeans are the greenest people in the world #1 that they can make a trip to the recycling machine daily. Sometime even up to 3 times.
 
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NightGhost said:
This project doesn't make sense.
I don't think people wash, need wash n bring over all this costing more than 0.1
Not to mention the machine operation n menpower for collection n servicing machine also not cheap.
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IMHO.
I think no one wants to solve this rinse/wash issue, it has been around since the blue bins.
 
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zetraw said:
Rinse is to keep in bag as not immediately got time to detour to machine. Or always carry a plastic bag to hold empty cans.
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IMHO.
I think I need to save some money to go green, i will opt for bottled drinks and then use it to collect water for the public facilities... 🤔
 
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Joseph12 said:
I don't think many machines maxed out

And we are talking about the normal machines not the giant size machine which are like have one HUGE metal space where a few bodies can sleep in
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not many machine maxed out but they collected our money ! this is call raising the price
 
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zetraw said:
You go lunch, buy a can of drink and finish up your lunch. Walk to machine, find long queue or 2 auntie/uncle with 4 bags. You wait or bring back?

Wait. So need to factor in machine return time and also can only eat around places with machine.

Go back office with dirty can. Wash in toilet and keep at office. So bring back home or bring to machine the next day?

Bring back home. So along the way home, decide to detour to machine. Done.

But 1 day out of 1 month, no time to detour, coz want to party with friend, how to bring 1 empty along.

So keep at office. Next day, go eat same places near machine and return. Bring an empty can and buy a can of drink, 2 cans, 20 cents. Woohoo.

Colleagues say dont go same place eat lah, so may end up with 3 empty cans in office. Finally going to places with machine, bring a bag of cans and take back money.


OR, once a day, make going to machine a part of daily life. sometime vist the machine 2 or 3 times a day depending how many meals are taken outside.


Headline: Singaporeans are the greenest people in the world #1 that they can make a trip to the recycling machine daily. Sometime even up to 3 times.
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That happened to me
Old.man saw me and let me do.first cos I only have one can compared.to his 585 cans

It doesn't matter cos like 20 metres away there's another machine
 
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