Jan Slagter, the boss of Omroep MAX, thinks it’s ridiculous that you now have to pay a surcharge on plastic disposable packaging everywhere. “The McFlurry is now just 25 cents more expensive!”
It disturbs Jan Slagter immensely that since this month there has been a surcharge on all disposable packaging. He finds that really unnecessary. “I regularly go to a gas station and buy a cup of coffee there and then you have to pay a dime for your cup these days,” he says in the talk show. The Orange Summer.
McFlurry
Jan thinks it’s ridiculous. “Not that I really mind, but I actually find that a bit crazy. If you buy such an ice cream at McDonald’s, such a McFlurry, you pay 25 cents for the lid. You can’t bring it back. Where does that money go? That then goes to the owner, I don’t know exactly.”
He continues: “I actually think that coffee costs a dime… Because a cup like that doesn’t cost a dime or a quarter. I think that coffee should be lowered in the price, because you now simply pay more for a cup of coffee.”
No choice
You are simply forced to pay that surcharge, Jan grumbles. “I have no choice. The chip shop has cardboard trays, but the coffee in a cardboard cup.. Before I get to the car, you have nothing left in your cup…”
Surely he can take his own mug to the gas station? “Yes, Jesus guys, I’m not going to do that, am I? And then it’s in your car. You do that?”
Fellow guest Özcan Akyol: “I don’t like coffee.”
25 cents
Jan also keeps hammering on that more expensive McFlurry. “I think it’s strange that the price is going up and that the McFlurry has now gone up a quarter at McDonald’s. That money then goes to a foundation or something?”
Political reporter Merel Ek: “No, I think it remains with the operator, because they have to pay more to contribute to cleaning up litter.”
Jan: “Yes, but they already bought that cup anyway, so the price has not gone up. I like all those rules… A dime here, a quarter there… I mean, we’re already cross-eyed. This is not for me.”