Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Scrutiny of the Waste Reduction Bill 2017

1:30 pm

Mr. Séamus Clancy:

To put this in context, the UK does not have an extended producer responsibility scheme and it does not have deposit return schemes and it is seeking to introduce something that will increase its level of recycling overall and my understanding is that Coca Cola is supportive of the principle of testing it but not unless it is going to work. It is considering it not in Scotland but in London. I am not too sure exactly what is going on in the UK but it uses a producer returnable note, PRN, system, which is a trading. I would be very interested to know what Mr. Hogg thinks of that because it definitely is not delivering in the UK.