Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Scrutiny of the Waste Reduction Bill 2017

1:30 pm

Mr. Stephen Treacy:

On the first question, in terms of plastic recycling waste recovery, the 84% rate of recovery includes the recycling as well. The recycling portion of that is 34% and the remainder is recovery in waste incineration plants and energy recovery.

In terms of the exports, I do not have the percentage table here but approximately two thirds of packaging waste in total is exported. Some 77,000 tons of plastic are exported for material recycling, and 68,000 tons are exported for energy recovery. Those are the 2015 numbers that are on our website.

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