Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I am reading a document on waste plastic recovery. It states that the IFFPG disclosed at this committee that the target of 70% of the farm plastics has been recycled, with up to 90% recycled in 2021 and 88% recycled in 2022. It states the volume of waste plastic being collected each year is in the region of 36,000 or 37,000 tonnes. This is what was collected. On the website, it states that in 2021, IFFPG supplied a third of what it collected in two Irish recycling facilities. It gives the figure for recycling as 6,000 tonnes. There is a fair difference between 6,000 tonnes and 36,000 or 37,000 tonnes. Generally, if you buy 18,000 or 20,000 tonnes of plastic, it will be 40,000 tonnes when it is brought to recycling because it will twice the weight. How can there be two different figures from the same body? How does the Minister of State look at that?