Seanad debates

Wednesday, 5 November 2003

Waste Management: Statements.

 

A considerable number of my supermarket customers ask me why we put certain products in plastic packaging as they cannot get rid of it. Our main reason is so customers can see through to the plastic and changing would create a challenge for us. Customers never raised this before and have only started to do so in the past year when they became obliged to pay for the waste and they begrudge spending the money. This shows the system is working. In providing for local waste charges, we must do it in such a way as to give the householder the incentives to behave in this way. If we do not, we miss the most important point of having local charges.

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