Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Prohibition of Certain Products Containing Plastic Microbeads Bill 2018: Discussion
Dr. Kevin Lynch:
Exactly. Those are secondary microplastics so they are not being directly introduced as a raw material. They are a larger plastic when they are being manufactured and used as a raw material. This legislation is not concerned with those types of plastics. That needs to be tackled on another day.
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