Irish consumers left behind \u20ac60.1m last year as they failed to redeem their deposits for drink containers through the Government’s Deposit Return Scheme.<\/p>\n
The figure is contained in their 2025 annual report.<\/p>\n
It is a drop of \u20ac6.6m on 2024’s figures of \u20ac66.7m for unredeemed deposits.<\/a><\/p>\n Last year, a total of 1.4 billion containers were returned, up from 877 million in 2024.<\/p>\n Re-turn said this equated to a return rate of 76.4% in 2025.<\/p>\n The company said it made a surplus after taxation of \u20ac34.4m in the year.<\/p>\n It said 30,917 tonnes of material were returned for recycling, compared with 18,893 tonnes in 2024.<\/p>\n In the report, Re-turn’s Chief Executive Ciar\u00e1n Foley said Irish people\u2019s “response to the deposit return scheme has been incredible”.<\/p>\n Mr Foley said the scheme had “strong participation and return rates”.<\/p>\n “I want to express sincere gratitude to everyone who has played a part \u2013 from those who have returned their first container to those who have played a part in the return of millions,” he added.<\/p>\n Read more:
The ups and downs of the Deposit Return Scheme<\/a>
Businesses in capital say organised gangs searching bins for bottles, cans to recycle<\/a>
Household recycling of equal standard to Re-turn, says waste management body<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish consumers left behind \u20ac60.1m last year as they failed to redeem their deposits for drink containers through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-577237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577237","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=577237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}