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Ep 3: How do we unscrew it? 👇

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Ep 2: How do I stop it screwing me? 👇

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First dog grooming business in history to be charged with wasting Garda time?

I’ve heard the fish farms are being decimated by Siphonophores more than any other Jellyfish. Nasty sting I’d imagine?

What’s your preferred solution on your land? Is it possible to evenly balance competing interests of productive harvests, endangered birds, nitrates management?

Back of an envelope answer, John: If you’d had to do it in 2018 and 2023 what would the impact have been?

That’s a shocker. Imagine finding out “one size fits all” national solutions don’t always work everywhere. Colour me surprised.

I need somebody to explain this to me like I’m really really thick. Or is it just that it’s a complex marginal call whether cover crop’s benefits to water quality do or don’t outweigh the benefits of leaving a field in stubble for the birds?

An answer that doesn’t make me look thick would be nice.

Two years and one month ago I recorded the interview in this programme with him in Dhaka. Brilliant, generous and wise. Terrible loss.

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I know of one business in Kildare that is taking much of this food packaging and turning it into plastic fencing etc. But at the national level Re-Turn is only for PET not for HDPE which mostly goes overseas.

You’re cleaning your milk bottles to stop them contaminating other recyclables.

Yes, sorry, who am I tellin 🙄

Aoibhinn Ni Suilleabhain told us on Countrywide that the NRL stakeholder group’s provisional estimate was €100m a year till 2030 to implement the plan.

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The glaring oversight here is milk containers. That grade of plastic can’t be recycled. 30,000 tonnes of single use bottles a year. I wonder who is going to grasp that nettle and tell the creameries they need to change their packaging.

The Re-Turn CEO, Ciaran Foley, told me back in June or July that the plan now is to build a PET Bottle to Bottle recycling facility instead of exporting.

I did, but about ten years ago. It is probably badly out of date as since then China has said “please stop sending us your rubbish”. I’ll put it on The to-do list

At present the NRL is going to wither on the vine without funding. Nobody likes taxes, but research shows significantly less resistance if people know the money is going to something they support.

I think a trick is being missed here. To stitch a New Deal social contract into the NRL. We, the taxpayers, undertake to fund you, the landowners, to restore nature. And in return you, the landowners, undertake to give us greater access to nature. An EUwide Allemänsratten

I’m increasingly convinced it’s the secret sauce. Individual agri-enviro schemes, legislation or policy might not be universally popular. But any right minded person recognises the hurt we’ve caused to something we all love.