Government bottles it and so Waste Reduction Bill languishes

What is Environment Minister Denis Naughten’s problem with deposit-refunds on bottles, cans and plastic bottles, and a ban on cups and tableware that can’t be composted or used again?

A cost analysis of the Waste Reduction Bill (2017) still hasn’t been issued. Without that analysis, the bill can’t proceed to committee stage, and without going to committee stage, it can never be refined by the political process, let alone become law.

Meanwhile, we are crunching along on bottles and cans every time we go to the local park, the local river bank, the local beach.