{"id":541384,"date":"2026-07-09T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541384\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:58:09","slug":"clare-retailer-says-deposit-return-scheme-costing-business-over-e4500-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541384\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Retailer Says Deposit Return Scheme Costing Business Over \u20ac4,500 Per Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Clare Retailer has told an Oireachtas Committee that her business is losing money by operating the Deposit Return Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Low volume traders, who accept less than 250,000 bottles and cans each year, can receive grants of between \u20ac6,000 and \u20ac12,000 over a three-year period depending on usage.<\/p>\n<p>The Convenience Store and Newsagents Association has raised concerns however that due to handling fees, the scheme isn\u2019t always cost neutral.<\/p>\n<p>CSNA Vice President and Manager of Crowe\u2019s Gala in Sixmilebridge, Flora Crowe says her store is sustaining significant losses under the programme.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full address here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Clare Retailer has told an Oireachtas Committee that her business is losing money by operating the Deposit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-541384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}