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
Ms Mindy O'Brien:
We have been focusing a lot on plastics and plastic bottles but the deposit would also impact on aluminium cans. Right now, we are only recycling 55% of aluminium cans, which is really low given that aluminium is such a high-value, 100% recyclable material. This sort of deposit would increase the amount.