Mr. Liam Moloney:

Thank you. An 88% recycling rate is an extraordinarily high recycling level. There is no other farm plastic recycling scheme achieving anywhere near that level of farm plastics waste. The amount of funding we take in from our members and farmers is necessary to achieve that level.

With regard to the 12% of farmers who are not using the service, we would love them to use the service. We are engaging with the farming community all the time so that we can get more farmers in using the service. We are advertising as hard as we can but we do not want it to be a system whereby farmers will be penalised if they do not use the service. We want a continuation of the very successful approach we have had to date. We have made the services convenient, reliable and as cost effective as possible to the farmer. That is why we have so many farmers coming in year on year and why we are achieving such a high recycling level. As I say, if we can get more farmers using the service, we would be absolutely delighted with that.