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

Mr. Liam Moloney:

We are carrying over the material because the market has been so difficult in recent years that we have found it hard to get enough outlets to collect all of the material that we have been collecting at the farmyards and bringing to our bring centres. As I said, the situation is improving somewhat. The material is being stored in our contractors' yards. Currently, we have four contractors. The material is stored in their yards. Their yards are permitted by the relevant local authorities. We are licensed by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Every year we submit a detailed operations report as well as detailed audited accounts to the Department . The Department checks those to make sure it is happy with how we are performing.