J. Płonka in [12] noted that one could expect that the regularization ${\mathcal R}(K)$ of a variety ${K}$ of unary algebras is a subdirect product of ${K}$ and the variety ${D}$ of all discrete algebras (unary semilattices), but is not the case. The purpose of this note is to show that his expectation is fulfilled for those and only those irregular varieties ${K}$ which are contained in the generalized variety ${TDir}$ of the so-called trap-directable algebras.