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
Mr. John Chave:
Ms Dean has put it perfectly. All plastics are not polymers and vice versa,and sometimes a lack of precision in the definitions can lead to a much broader scope of regulation than was even intended. This is why we were concerned about the additional omission of the word "plastic" because without that a range of polymer materials, which most people do not regard as plastic, is roped in.
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