Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion

Mr. Liam Moloney:

I visited the plant in Littleton a few weeks ago. That plant has dramatically improved and it hopes to start operating commercially in the coming weeks. Bord na Móna is very hopeful that the plant will deliver and we are obviously hopeful as well. We will give it whatever volume of material it requires from us. It makes good sense for us to supply to a recycling facility in such a central location. We have also recycled significant quantities of material through other recyclers in the past year. I refer, for example, to Walker Recycling Services in Portlaoise, which is a pre-treatment facility. We hope to put 6,000 or 7,000 tonnes of material through the ADN Materials plant in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, this year. We are absolutely committed to supporting Irish recyclers wherever it is viable to do so.

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