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:

On the first question, we intend to run the same bring centre programme again this year. Typically, we run a bring centre programme that consists of 220 to 230 bring centres. They are provided in each county throughout the country. The average county has around eight or nine bring centres. Unless Covid stops us doing so we expect to provide a similar service this year. On the stockpiles in our contractors' yards, they probably have 10,000 or 11,000 tonnes at the moment but we are very confident that material will move in the next 12 months, along with whatever we collect this year. To put the thing in some perspective, last year we collected 34,000 tonnes of material from farmers throughout the country but we also sent 34,000 tonnes for recycling. However, we carried material from previous years because the market is so difficult. It is a difficult market situation but we are seeing improved demand. We supply a lot of material to Irish recyclers, we are committed to supporting Irish recyclers where possible and we are very confident that whatever we collect this year, along with what we are going to carry over, will be recycled in the next 12 months or so.

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