# plastic - Friday 4 January, 2019
The Green Party has said the ban only addresses “the lowest of the low-hanging fruit”.
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# plastic - Sunday 18 November, 2018
The problem costs €7 million per year to address.
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# plastic - Wednesday 7 November, 2018
‘Single-use’describes items whose unchecked proliferation are blamed for damaging the environment.
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# plastic - Monday 5 November, 2018
One local said that little plastic pins were “all over the Forty Foot, all the way up to the swimming baths”.
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# plastic - Sunday 4 November, 2018
Several Dublin councils plan to install public water fountains in order to reduce the use of single-use plastics.
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# plastic - Saturday 27 October, 2018
On average, every person in the EU consumes up to 106 litres of bottled water every year.
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# plastic - Sunday 7 October, 2018
Lidl has confirmed that by next year it will have discontinued the sale of single-use plastics in its Irish stores.
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But they aren’t going as far as their stores in the UK just yet.
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# plastic - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
According to Repak, Ireland’s plastic recycling must increase to 175,000 tonnes by 2030 to reach new EU targets.
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# plastic - Sunday 2 September, 2018
Some 500,000 tonnes of plastic waste from the EU end up in the sea every year.
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# plastic - Saturday 18 August, 2018
Litter is a big problem at many festivals.
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# plastic - Monday 13 August, 2018
40% of Irish rivers, beaches and harbours were littered or heavily littered, according to a new survey.
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# plastic - Monday 16 July, 2018
The company aims to remove all single-use plastic products by 2020.
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# plastic - Sunday 8 July, 2018
Eight million tonnes of plastic are dumped into the Earth’s oceans and seas each year.
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# plastic - Friday 15 June, 2018
McDonald’s will begin the process of transferring to paper straws from September.
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# plastic - Monday 28 May, 2018
Some 500,000 tonnes of plastic waste from the EU end up in the sea every year.
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# plastic - Wednesday 25 April, 2018
We need to recognise the damage our plastic addiction is having on our planet, writes Professor Gordon Chambers.
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# plastic - Tuesday 17 April, 2018
It appears to feed exclusively on a type of plastic used widely in plastic bottles.
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# plastic - Wednesday 28 March, 2018
Similar schemes are already in place in Germany, Sweden and Denmark.
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# plastic - Saturday 24 March, 2018
Campaigners are asking people to leave the excess plastic packaging with the cashier.
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# plastic - Friday 23 March, 2018
Most of the dump is made up of tiny fragments of plastic smaller than 5mm.
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# plastic - Monday 19 February, 2018
It’s one of the highest reported frequencies of microplastic occurrence in fish around the globe.
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# plastic - Wednesday 17 January, 2018
Around 26 million tonnes of plastic waste is generated in Europe every year, but only 30% of that is recycled.
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# plastic - Saturday 30 December, 2017
The rise in plastic refuse in the ocean and on beaches is killing turtles of all species.
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# plastic - Sunday 8 October, 2017
The Social Democrats want one.
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# plastic - Sunday 30 July, 2017
Supervalu and Centra said that “packaging plays an important role in containing, preserving and protecting food”.
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# plastic - Thursday 29 June, 2017
On Tuesday, mince was recalled from Aldi for the same reason.
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There was a significant increase in the level of plastic recycled.
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# plastic - Saturday 17 June, 2017
The party’s new Waste Reduction Bill 2017 also aims to ban non-recyclable coffee cups by 2020.
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# plastic - Friday 27 January, 2017
Just one piece of contaminated packaging can ruin an entire recycling bin.
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# plastic - Tuesday 27 September, 2016
The French Government recently became the first to ban plastic cups, cutlery and plates from 2020.
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# plastic - Wednesday 21 September, 2016
France recently passed a similar law.
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# plastic - Saturday 5 March, 2016
Wholefoods have gone back to selling mandarins as they should be.
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# plastic - Tuesday 19 January, 2016
# plastic - Friday 29 August, 2014
A piece of plastic debris wrapped around its beak preventing it from feeding.
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# plastic - Tuesday 1 July, 2014
Plastics from toys, bags, food containers and utensils have made their way onto the ocean surfaces – and the problem is getting worse.
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# plastic - Saturday 18 January, 2014
It’s been around since the 80s but it’s only recently that 3D printing has hit the mainstream. So how does it work?
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# plastic - Tuesday 9 April, 2013
Bisphenol A is a common component of plastic bottles and the linings of food cans
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# plastic - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
Four different multipacks of McCoy’s crisps were being voluntarily recalled from shelves.
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# plastic - Wednesday 22 August, 2012
Some 208,000 tonnes of household packaged was recovered last year.
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