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# Plastic Packaging

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Soft plastic is being collected but almost all burned in Irish kilns or recycled abroad
Deposit-return scheme on bottles and cans to start rolling out in shops
Targets for recycling plastic packaging will be 'extremely challenging' - so how do we do it?