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#557 Follow the Bottles, Follow the Money
Host Niall Boylan sits down with John McGuirk (Gript) to untangle Ireland’s chaotic bottle return scheme. They dig into why the rollout has been such a mess, who’s actually making money, and what it means for ordinary people — from full recycling machines to piles of unclaimed deposits. Expect sharp takes, hard questions, and plenty of pushback.
In this episode Niall and John cover:
A quick explainer of how the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) is supposed to work and why it hit trouble on launch day.
The numbers: how many containers have been returned so far, the system’s capture and overall…
The skinny
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