Jonathan Byrne

People, whether they're doing it for financial gain or whether they're doing it to get the money that they need to survive, are taking these bottles and are indeed whipping them from people who are sitting out having a drink in a cafe.

Whatever about the beaches that were left in a terrible condition after the sunshine?

earlier this week.

You know, this is happening in the city centre.

This is happening in towns.

And interestingly, a listener has said, you mentioned Dunleary, Martina, regular sightings of people with replica keys to open bins and scavenge in Dunleary.

So not only are they kind of rummaging through the top of the bin, they're actually getting a key that the council worker would use to open the bin and go through it for the sake of a few shillings.

Tina, don't be coming in with your good ideas now and expecting the local authorities to take them on board.

Stay with us because I want to bring in Shane Gleeson who runs a number of spa shops across Limerick.

Good to talk to you again, Shane.

How are you?

You have experienced this at first hand as well, have you?

So you've got these plastic bins that are outside there, which you are doing your bit to make sure that outside the shops aren't littered.

Someone's coming along with a scissors, they're cutting through it and then they're taking out the bottles.

What did it do with the rest of the rubbish?

Has it just been thrown around?

Do they have the audacity then to use the deposit return machines in your shop to try and claim the money back or do they bring the bottles elsewhere?

So you had to create a prison for plastic?

It's the law of unintended consequences.

It is the law of unintended consequences here, isn't it?