Rick Romijn, sidekick in the main show on Radio 538, is angry about the new surcharge that must be paid for disposable plastic. “We just take everything in this country!”
It disturbs the well-known sidekick Rick Romijn immensely that since this month a surcharge has to be paid for products that contain disposable plastic. “Yesterday I went to get a cup of coffee on my way to Zandvoort, at the petrol pump. Yes, I had received my holiday pay, so I thought: well, it’s possible again, hahaha,” he says 538.
‘Lost 10 cents!’
His coffee fun was soon disturbed. “It’s kind of strange what you have to pay for everything now, isn’t it? You put a cup under something and: 10 cents. You have to pay for it! Unless you bring your own cup on the highway. You know what’s weird? Of course, ‘the environment’ and all that bullshit, but it must also be possible to return that container.”
Rick gets pissed off. “This was at Shell. You leave and you just lost 10 cents. Yes, I find that really absurd. And if you go to McDonald’s and you take a normal order… You’re just out 20 euros in extra costs, man. It does not make any sense. We just take everything in the Netherlands, man.”
‘It’s crazy’
Colleague Tim Klijn: “It’s all about the lids on the milkshake, right?”
Fellow sidekick Niels van Baarlen: “They are now made of cardboard at McDonald’s.”
Tim: “And then you don’t have the costs again?”
Rick: “Yes!”
Niels: “I happened to be at McDonald’s on Saturday. I had two ice creams and a milkshake and I had to pay a 75 cent surcharge.”
Rick: “It’s crazy!”
Understand it
Niels is more understanding. “I said: ‘I understand, I like to contribute to the environment.’”
Rick: “No, not at all!”
Niels: “I don’t think it’s crazy at all. If that solves the problem?”
Tim: “Yes, but that’s it: it doesn’t solve the problem. What do they do with that 75 cents? Does that go into a fund or what?”
Niels: “They have to pay the government, because they are those foiled cups.”
Tim: “What does the government do with that?”
Niels: “Well, I think solving shortages.”
Tim: “Yes, I have that feeling a bit.”
Scam
Niels: “Ultimately it will be used to solve the budget deficit.”
Rick: “I think the scam is first class.”
Niels thinks his colleagues are short-sighted. “You are not thinking about the next generation!”
Rick a little later: “They drain you completely, the government. They are just very strange measures and they just keep squeezing you from all sides. We just keep taking everything in the Netherlands, don’t we?”