James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the obligations refuse companies have regarding collection, segregation and disposal of glass waste from domestic customers; if such companies are required to provide a separate bin service for the collection of glass bottles; the regulation in place or planned to manage this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14685/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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There is no obligation on collectors of household waste under waste management legislation to provide a separate bin service for the collection of glass bottles. In terms of the recycling of glass, recent data (links provided below) indicate that we are at or above an 80% recycling level. There are over 2,200 bring banks and 100 recycling centres across the country, which support these relatively high recycling levels for glass.

www.repak.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Repak_AR_final_for-web1.pdf.

www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/waste/stats/EPA_Progress%20towards%20EU%20targets_Jan17_web.pdf.