Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Circular Economy: Discussion
Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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This will help. On 1 June, it will be illegal to display a product on the shelf or to offer a product for sale that does not have the logo on it. Currently, we are in a period when businesses can keep selling off their old stock. On 1 June, though, every drink we buy, from 150 ml in size to 3 l, has to be returnable. That will make it a much simpler-to-understand scheme and create less of a chance of someone putting something into the machine on which a deposit was not paid.