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:

At the moment, the key stakeholders, the farm plastics industry and the farmers, are doing well because the farm plastics industry gets cost-effective compliance. We would like to think that we give a very comprehensive service to farmers. We provide bring centres in every county. We also provide a year-round farmyard collection service and I believe the results speak for themselves. We are currently achieving an 80% recycling rate. It is unfortunate that we have had to increase charges to farmers and to members in recent years, but that was unavoidable. As has been mentioned a few times already, we are more than happy to pass any significant savings back to farmers and members in the future through charge reductions.

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