Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion.
11:00 am
Mr. John McLaughlin:
We are just acknowledging a lot of collaboration has taken place and it has to continue. As we have stated, we cannot do it in isolation or on our own. We want everyone to play their part. I mentioned earlier about the huge co-operation from the EPA and the Department. It is unusual for a local authority plan that we wrote actions for them and they accepted them. That was probably a first. Mr. Swift talked about with the national plan. It was similarly with the waste industry. It happened there as well. Going all the way back to the customer, the Senator described some in terms of presenting waste and presenting it properly. How we go about that is a huge challenge, namely to get waste presented properly, and then to get the most value out of it through the recycling chain. We talked about the climate and all of that. It is all interlinked.