Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the sale of consumer goods packaging containing harmful plastics, to prohibit the sale of consumer products containing microbeads, to promote the use of biodegradable materials in the packaging of consumer products, to enable the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to make for that purpose certain regulations and to permit the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare programmes for monitoring the use of harmful plastics in the manufacture, distribution and sale of consumer products in the State.
Last updated: 27 Mar 2020
History of this Bill
The Bill lapsed with the dissolution of the Dáil and Seanad
27 Mar 2020
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As initiated
Harmful Plastics (Prohibition) Bill 2019
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Debates
16 Oct 2019
Seanad Éireann
Harmful Plastics (Prohibition) Bill 2019: First Stage