Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I raise recycling and bin collections. The deposit return scheme has come in and the good people of the State are, by and large, doing the right thing with plastic bottles and cans. I support the scheme and use it but because less stuff is going into recycling bins, the private companies that collect waste are now charging us for that. We are charged for the levy on plastic bottles and cans, which is fine, but because of the reduction in the volume in the recycling bin, companies are now charging more. The privatisation of waste collection has caused a lot of these problems. In my locality, four separate trucks collect waste, three on the same morning.

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