Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar
2:00 pm
Ms Mindy O'Brien:
If we consider the waste pyramid, disposal is at the bottom of it. Just above that is recycling. The top of the pyramid is waste prevention. We want to prevent waste. A lot of single-use items are used for ten minutes and then thrown away. Coffee cups have a thin plastic liner which prevents-----
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