Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion

Photo of Alan FarrellAlan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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Following on from Deputy Kenny's line of questioning, we have talked in this committee about the multiples not selling packs of vegetables ideal for the very point Mr. Flynn has just made: "I need only two of those, one of those and three of those."

Everybody knows they are the common ingredients but there does not seem to be any incentive or action by the larger multiples to actually provide those sort of things. Another element to the behavioural analyses of users is to do with the disincentives for using the black bin for food waste. Is there a sufficient incentive for the waste collection bodies across the country to notify their customers to tell them their bins are half full of food, are heavy because of that and costing more, and to ask the customers why they are not using their brown bin? This is just to have a logical play out of that conversation with Deputy Kenny.