Discussion | Beverage Container Return Scheme

[byfun]

I was doing some quick maths and realise the effort to keep the stupid bottles and finding the stupid machine is not worth it at all unless you return like 20-30 bottles at a time.

Let's say you return 10 bottles at a time and your nearest return station is 5 minutes from your house. You get 1 dollar for 10mins of effort. Means your effective pay is a derisory $6 per hour.

In reality, most people aren't going to be returning so many at a time, so the hourly rate is realistically less.

This whole thing is a joke and is literally making life worse for people who were already recycling before this scheme for no good reason.

Here's my personal struggle:
I work in a restricted area with no brcs return points. Last time I buy drink from vending machine, I just throw it in the recycling bin when I'm done. Now if I do the same, I am throwing 10 cents away. If I want my 10cents back, I have to hold on to the drink till the end of the day, bring it with me all the way to the carpark (a 15min walk btw), drive home, and walk to the nearest return point near my home, then walk back home. All that for 10 cents.

Last week I got a new idea to let the bottles accumulate first before returning together. But yesterday when I saw the amount of empty bottles sitting in my car I decided that I've had enough of this nonsense. It's just not worth it.

It mean the scheme is working ... to make it difficult for average joe who still need to work and juggle with family life ..etc. A non return mean a additional income to the gov. .

This only suitable for boomers and retirees with a lot of time to burn and nothing to do.

 

[Nevereatrice]

then wad chiu gonna do

 

[Nuclear Boy]

Get your own bottle, fill with your own drink. Settled.

Don't have to worry about this stupid scheme anymore.

 

[Travis_Touchdown]

moi juz see whether moi wanna limz or notch... if wanna limz then juz return to get back moi $ rohz... sho simpurz...

 

[NightGhost]

It like a scam
Can imagine if buy 10 kena charge 1 dollar bo tai bo chi lost money. 1 month can lose how many sia just to pay extra.
If wan they supposed not charge extra but as a incentive to give.

 

[spinning_quirK]

Currently Paylah not even working

 

[Prof. Utonium]

Till date, the cans I had purchased are not eligible for the refund yet I am still charged for it.

 

[toolbox03]

Can afford car what is 10 cents to you

 

[The_Davis]

I was doing some quick maths and realise the effort to keep the stupid bottles and finding the stupid machine is not worth it at all unless you return like 20-30 bottles at a time.

Let's say you return 10 bottles at a time and your nearest return station is 5 minutes from your house. You get 1 dollar for 10mins of effort. Means your effective pay is a derisory $6 per hour.

In reality, most people aren't going to be returning so many at a time, so the hourly rate is realistically less.

This whole thing is a joke and is literally making life worse for people who were already recycling before this scheme for no good reason.

Here's my personal struggle:
I work in a restricted area with no brcs return points. Last time I buy drink from vending machine, I just throw it in the recycling bin when I'm done. Now if I do the same, I am throwing 10 cents away. If I want my 10cents back, I have to hold on to the drink till the end of the day, bring it with me all the way to the carpark (a 15min walk btw), drive home, and walk to the nearest return point near my home, then walk back home. All that for 10 cents.

Last week I got a new idea to let the bottles accumulate first before returning together. But yesterday when I saw the amount of empty bottles sitting in my car I decided that I've had enough of this nonsense. It's just not worth it.

Hey, you forgot about the part
- need to wash
- dry

then can put in the machine

 

[lifeafter41]

Use car to do bcrs………
Your time, petrol and parking cost even more.
Tsk tsk tsk………….

 

[The_Davis]

That when jealous people take your photos with your 10,000 bottles/cans and put up online.

How they get so many bottles/cans?

 

[The_Davis]

Currently Paylah not even working

Then can refund to where?

 

[whatheheck]

That when jealous people take your photos with your 10,000 bottles/cans and put up online.

I thought the person just explaining whats the machine?

 

[TLCTLC88]

Thank god I prefer my drinking bottle. No such nonsense to deal with as i already have too many on my plate.

 

[Whimsica]

We know most people will at some point treat the 10 cents as extra costs.

Like the 5 cents supermarket plastic bag.

Like the 20-50 cents tabao container charges.

 

[NintendoSwitch]

I was doing some quick maths and realise the effort to keep the stupid bottles and finding the stupid machine is not worth it at all unless you return like 20-30 bottles at a time.

Let's say you return 10 bottles at a time and your nearest return station is 5 minutes from your house. You get 1 dollar for 10mins of effort. Means your effective pay is a derisory $6 per hour.

In reality, most people aren't going to be returning so many at a time, so the hourly rate is realistically less.

This whole thing is a joke and is literally making life worse for people who were already recycling before this scheme for no good reason.

Here's my personal struggle:
I work in a restricted area with no brcs return points. Last time I buy drink from vending machine, I just throw it in the recycling bin when I'm done. Now if I do the same, I am throwing 10 cents away. If I want my 10cents back, I have to hold on to the drink till the end of the day, bring it with me all the way to the carpark (a 15min walk btw), drive home, and walk to the nearest return point near my home, then walk back home. All that for 10 cents.

Last week I got a new idea to let the bottles accumulate first before returning together. But yesterday when I saw the amount of empty bottles sitting in my car I decided that I've had enough of this nonsense. It's just not worth it.

Your towgay thanks you for funding new GCBs cum sportscars cum siao san. Keep on sarpok.

 

[NintendoSwitch]

i will accumulate till $1000 then go refund

Jokes on you bro. Some of the time the BCRS is full. Other time it will display some random error when you click on the refund after it accepted the bottles.

 

[Skoda29]

Stop drinking all those can drinks no such worries.

 

[Aion99]

If enough people boycott this, they might eventually cancel this stupid BCRS. We still need more videos from netizens to promote the anti-BCRS movement. The cost of continuing BCRS is simply too high for the public, manufacturers, and retailers.

 

[Asphodeli]

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I was doing some quick maths and realise the effort to keep the stupid bottles and finding the stupid machine is not worth it at all unless you return like 20-30 bottles at a time.

Let's say you return 10 bottles at a time and your nearest return station is 5 minutes from your house. You get 1 dollar for 10mins of effort. Means your effective pay is a derisory $6 per hour.

In reality, most people aren't going to be returning so many at a time, so the hourly rate is realistically less.

This whole thing is a joke and is literally making life worse for people who were already recycling before this scheme for no good reason.

Here's my personal struggle:
I work in a restricted area with no brcs return points. Last time I buy drink from vending machine, I just throw it in the recycling bin when I'm done. Now if I do the same, I am throwing 10 cents away. If I want my 10cents back, I have to hold on to the drink till the end of the day, bring it with me all the way to the carpark (a 15min walk btw), drive home, and walk to the nearest return point near my home, then walk back home. All that for 10 cents.

Last week I got a new idea to let the bottles accumulate first before returning together. But yesterday when I saw the amount of empty bottles sitting in my car I decided that I've had enough of this nonsense. It's just not worth it.

TS why u nv transfer to thermos flask then bring the flask to your site? like that you can keep your bottles at home then you can return?