Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2022-06-30
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Ossian Smyth (GP), Dún Laoghaire

It is a shocking practice where a commercial company, retailer or Internet retailer takes perfectly good consumer goods from a shelf and puts them straight into landfill or destroy them because they have calculated that they will get a better return on investment or a higher profit by actually destroying working consumer goods. The EU has agreed a general approach to that and an anti-dumping provision will be included in EU rules. I am not familiar with the French legislation but I will take the time to see what they were able to do in line with the EU rules. Again, I do not propose to accept the amendment.

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Sitting date: 2022-06-30