Online retail giants 'not paying a cent' towards €1m recycling bill 

The 25% rise in packaging is the equivalent of 15m standard-sized parcels or nine parcels per each household — a "staggering" increase, according to Repak.

Major global online retailers are not contributing towards the €1m a year it takes to recycle their packaging, which has grown 25% in 2020, or almost 3,000 tonnes.

Non-profit environmental organisation Repak called on the likes of British retail firms Frasers Group, which includes Sports Direct and Jack Wills among its brands, and discount and clearance stock specialist M&M Direct, to pay their share of recycling packaging into Ireland.