Jonathan Byrne

The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk with Aviva Insurance.

The bin situation and the deposit return scheme.

This is something I have to say that I hadn't necessarily been aware of, but you kind of would expect it to happen.

Martina Devlin, novelist and Irish independent columnist is with us.

Martina, you had a bottle on a table.

What happened?

It's 15 cents, Martina.

And the funny thing about this is you wouldn't give 15 cents to someone who's begging on the street because you would probably deem that to be too paltry a figure.

You would have the 15, correct.

But obviously that 15 cents may not have been valuable to you.

I'm not sure if you would have recycled that particular bottle.

Yeah, it's going to be picked up by the staff there who will recycle it hopefully on the back end.

So they have a lot... Brilliantly described earlier on by somebody as a garter, which I mean, it makes sense that they would call it a garter, but that's not the word I would have used for them.

Probably not.

But I suppose, is this a good or a bad thing, Martina?

I'm on the record saying I do not like the deposit return scheme.

I had been recycling all of my bottles and cans anyway.

And now I have an entire micro system has been built up around this thing that you have to go in and put all the bottles in one by one.

And it's inconvenient.

This seems to be kind of another side effect that we hadn't thought of that.