According to letters a government official received, an angry customer threw up in a bottle and put it in a reverse vending machine as part of a filthy protest against the contentious Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), reports The Mirror.
The individual claimed to have put “a large turd” inside a plastic bottle before putting it into a machine and received his 25 cent deposit returned in an email sent to Ossian Smyth, the departing minister in charge of the initiative.
“I just wanted to let you know that I lodged a complaint about the ridiculous deposit return scheme by putting one of my own deposits in a reverse vending machine,” he wrote, reports The Mirror.
“I put a large turd in a bottle and inserted it into the machine and listened as it squelched inside,” reports The Mirror.
Because previous attempts with regular bottles had been “messy and ultimately impossible,” the man explained that he had utilised an Innocent juice container with a “wide spout”— “much like it often is trying to return bottles and cans at your machines,” he added.
Although he acknowledged that it was “a bit rich” for someone who had “just shat in a bottle” to complain about stench-filled containers, he said the plan had “enslaved” residents to carry “stinking bottles and cans” back to vending machines, reports The Mirror.
The complainant claimed that families were now bearing the cost of bin operators’ forced pricing increases after the system cost them a significant revenue stream.
In addition, he questioned the plan’s environmental benefits, pointing out that “a whole extra fleet of waste collection trucks” were now being used to pick up and move cans and bottles, reports The Mirror.
He added that it was “a bit rich” for someone who “just shat in a bottle” to complain about pollution, adding that “everyone in the country is hopping in their car to bring bags of the bloody things to supermarkets [and] this is just creating a whole lot more pollution.”
Nine days before to the general election, which saw Mr. Smyth lose his seat in the Dáil, the email was sent on November 20. Until a new administration is established, he will continue to serve as a minister of state, reports The Mirror.
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