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. Paul McDonald:

Again, the approval is undergone every five years. It is not a licence as such but an approval. It is quite a rigorous procedure. We take advice from some of the experts within the Department and look at what is happening internationally to get a figure. That figure was 70%, which is an aggressive, onerous figure in any recycling scheme or any extended producer responsibility scheme. That it is an onerous figure would stand up to any objective scrutiny. The IFFPG has performed well as a system operator in exceeding that.