Waste plants cannot handle plastic ‘mountain’

A ‘MOUNTAIN’ of waste farm plastic which has accumulated on farms throughout the country over the past few years is proving a challenge for farmers and for Government re-cycling arrangements to deal with the problem.

Farmers in north Munster have been told that they may have to provide storage for the increasing volume of plastic which has built up on their farms for at least another season “because the arrangements for recycling cannot handle the volume”.

Limerick County IFA Chairman, Michael Roche, told a meeting of the Limerick County Executive at Adare that it is expected to be some considerable time yet before the “once-off” collection of old plastic from farms to clear the backlog is extended to the county.