Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion

Photo of Jackie CahillJackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To elaborate a bit further, what Mr. Fitzgerald is saying clearly to us is that for a number of years it was profitable to collect and export plastic without receiving the levy. He was able to do that without the levy. The IFFPG was collecting the levy and charging farmers at its depots for taking in the plastic, even though private operators were doing that in the absence of a levy. I presume there was probably a collection charge but they had no access to the levy. Now market conditions have changed, it is no longer profitable to export plastic without the existence of the levy. Has Mr. Fitzgerald now plastic on hand? Has he collected plastic he is not able to export? Has he a quantity of plastic stored waiting for a new home, let us say?

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