Sir, – I note that the proposed Deposit Return Scheme does not include glass jam jars (Letters, December 6th).
When I was a kid in the 1940s there was a much simpler scheme. While rag-and-bone men, who called to the houses with a hand-cart, would gladly accept empty jam jars, the ultimate reward was that the local cinema, the Tivoli, or “Tivo” in Francis Street, Dublin, would let you in for four empty jam jars. – Yours, etc,
TONY CORCORAN,
Rathfarnham,
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Sir, – Charles Dudley ( Letters, December 6th) makes an excellent suggestion that the payment system for returning bottles and cans should be electronic rather than based on paper receipts. Wouldn’t it have been appropriate to have a public debate on this matter before the decision to have a clumsy paper-based system was introduced?
And who will recycle all this paper? – Yours, etc,
MICHAEL HARRINGTON,
Beara,
Co Cork.