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Bottles and cans a new kind of street currency?

The Deposit Return Scheme has been a success from an environmental perspective but between people...

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09.15 29 May 2026


Bottles and cans a new kind of street currency?


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09.15 29 May 2026


The Deposit Return Scheme has been a success from an environmental perspective but between people searching through bins for discarded cans to others lifting bottles from street restaurant tables, the scheme has created some unexpected new habits. 

So, have bottles and cans become a new kind of street currency?  Jonathan asked Dr Martina Devlin novelist and Irish Independent columnist and Shane Gleeson Who Runs 5 Spar Shops Across Limerick.


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