Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

After last night's debate on waste, I went home to my own house to see what we were doing. There is a cupboard in which we put waste before it goes into the bin. I am sure everyone else knows the expression: when I opened up the cupboard, suddenly an avalanche of stuff came out. We are awash with it. We are being drowned in tonnes of plastics.

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