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Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - mrclubbie - 21-03-2023

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/shoppers-to-pay-10-cents-more-for-bottled-and-canned-drinks-from-april-2025-with-refund-after-recycling


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - [[ForeverAlone]] - 21-03-2023

Nonsense
Big countries don’t even bother much

Again wait Q dam long just because want to take back those cents

End up who benefit ??? Surely a lot don’t bother take back that extra 10 cents


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Dan - 21-03-2023

Can I get a refund for used recyclable Durex ?


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - red3 - 21-03-2023

They never check the bottle and cans end up at bazaar flea markets ... all bottle and cans got barcode one u know u know


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - debono - 21-03-2023

(21-03-2023, 08:54 PM)red3 Wrote:  They never check the bottle and cans end up at bazaar flea markets ... all bottle and cans got barcode one u know u know

What is the purpose of having bar code on the bottles and tin cans.....? Big Grin


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Symmetry - 21-03-2023

(21-03-2023, 08:57 PM)debono Wrote:  What is the purpose of having bar code on the bottles and tin cans.....? Big Grin

The recycling machine can read the codes to automate 10 cents refund.


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - debono - 21-03-2023

(21-03-2023, 09:06 PM)Symmetry Wrote:  The recycling machine can read the codes to automate 10 cents refund.

Which means that somebody needs to invent and build a machine to do this, is it productive.....................? Big Grin


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Dan - 21-03-2023

24 bottles in a carton that's $2.40.
Carry the whole carton of empty bottles to the bus stop, board the bus pay your fare $1.20 each way.
How much you get back?

What a 𝐅𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 joke


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - wendychan - 21-03-2023

so now those garang guni cannot collect cans anymore?

very troublesome

time to give up these drinks


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Migrant - 21-03-2023

You bring one whole carton of cans to the machine just to be told its out of order.
Then got to bring whole carton back. 🙄
How?


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Ernesto - 21-03-2023

Lazy ppl earning obscene income bringing hardship to its ppl.
If they are serious setup machine returning cans at all PA branches la. You have to work !
Not sitting in the office imposing the citizens to do this and that !


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - debono - 21-03-2023

(21-03-2023, 09:43 PM)Ernesto Wrote:  Lazy ppl earning obscene income bringing hardship to its ppl.
If they are serious setup machine returning cans at all PA branches la. You have to work !
Not sitting in the office imposing the citizens to do this  and that !

That has been the new normal............................ Big Grin


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - grotesqueness - 21-03-2023

(21-03-2023, 08:51 PM)Dan Wrote:  Can I get a refund for used recyclable Durex ?

can 

you got to lick it clean and clear in front of the sale counter


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Gstalk - 21-03-2023

Quote: In Parliament on Tuesday, Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment Amy Khor outlined the upcoming beverage container return scheme – to officially begin on July 2025 – at the start of the debate on the changes to the Resource Sustainability Act.


This Ah Khor again?

WTF


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - grotesqueness - 21-03-2023

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RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - sclim - 21-03-2023

skip these can drinks. do your body a favour by skipping all the sugar.
drink water from your own water bottle best.


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - debono - 21-03-2023

(21-03-2023, 10:40 PM)sclim Wrote:  skip these can drinks. do your body a favour by skipping all the sugar.
drink water from your own water bottle best.

This is a good advice.............and should be heeded................... Big Grin


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Dan - 21-03-2023

(21-03-2023, 09:48 PM)grotesqueness Wrote:  can 

you got to lick it clean and clear in front of the sale counter

I change my mind after hearing your past experience


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - WhatDoYouThink! - 21-03-2023

Another kokkup idea like tray return?


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Goldmine - 22-03-2023

The newly installed soft drinks vending now cost $2.00 per can. Last yr was $1.20 each. What a jump!


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Sharexchange - 22-03-2023

Small country trying to be like swiss standard...
Fix your chinatown rats at hawker first la


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - limpeh394 - 22-03-2023

those recycle machine sure crawling with ants and bugs soon in SG weather


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - growthorvalue - 22-03-2023

our gov has lost the way. they have not self confidnet and dont know how... they just follow.. with 0 clue


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - maddog - 22-03-2023

(21-03-2023, 08:22 PM)mrclubbie Wrote:  https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/shoppers-to-pay-10-cents-more-for-bottled-and-canned-drinks-from-april-2025-with-refund-after-recycling
Sounds very authoritarian le


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Harry Lee - 22-03-2023

No matter what tiny sinkees do it will not make any difference in saving the big earth. But, the escalating cost of living will kill sinkees first.


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - RiseofAsia - 22-03-2023

How do they know the bottles and cans are brought from the same shop? Rotfl

Base on batch number?


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - ODA TETSURO - 22-03-2023

Heng I never drink processed drinks, only drink hot kopi O...


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Dan - 22-03-2023

(21-03-2023, 09:42 PM)Migrant Wrote:  You bring one whole carton of cans to the machine just to be told its out of order.
Then got to bring whole carton back. 🙄
How?

Laughing


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - Lukongsimi - 22-03-2023

People will go
N collect them
for a living instead of cardboards
10cts per bottle good deal


RE: Pay 10cts more for bottled & canned drinks frm Apr'25, wif refund aft recycling - K88 shu shu - 22-03-2023

for me just throw away instead of walk all the way back to claim 10 cts.