Seanad debates

Thursday, 13 February 2003

Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).

 

Someone mentioned Denmark, where there are 35 municipal waste treatment plants. However, those are not absorbing all Denmark's waste, even though the Danes are probably the best recyclers in the world. They recycle up to 50% of their waste and are trying to drive that figure higher. That is what we can do here. How do we do so in a way that ensures all our waste does not go into incinerators? We can use charging structures and incentivising. We must give people incentives to recycle and, as some Senators correctly said, we will charge by weight. Senators were right to say it is unacceptable and wrong for a person with a wheelie bin full to the brim to pay the same as a person next door who may have very little waste and is recycling.

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