Repak Oireachtas Evening

In March of this year, Repak invited members of the Oireachtas to an informal briefing session in the Royal College of Physicians, Dublin.

The purpose of the event was to highlight the success of Repak in its 10 years of being and to highlight the issues that still face the company and its members.

Repak CEO, Dr. Andrew Hetherington expressed his confidence that Ireland can indeed achieve its 2011 packaging recycling target of 60%, however with an added note of warning, he concluded that if we are to mirror the success of our European counterparts, support from all sectors would be necessary for Ireland to hit recycling rates of 95%.


“We need all of the players in the game working off the same gameplan”, he said. “That includes business, Government, local authorities, waste collectors, schools and householders