Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
There is an issue in terms of local or smaller collectors and the scale that would be operated. We can assume none of those collectors would be anywhere close to the IFFPG. The difficulty I have is that far from being a polluter-pays system where producers have responsibility, producers are instead being let off the hook. They collect the levy from farmers but once it goes outside the producers' gates, because none of them are collecting sale-and-return or deposit-and-return schemes, it becomes somebody else's problem.
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