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Limiting waste isn’t always at the top of the priority list at Christmas.
Environmental campaigner Lyndsey O’Connell explains how our online festive shopping habits are leading to an excess of cardboard and plastic waste.
Plastic levels in the Atlantic Ocean are likely to be much higher than previous estimates suggested.
Researchers believe plastic levels in the Atlantic are ten times higher than previous estimates suggest.
The initial trial will run for four weeks in seven restaurants in the UK and Ireland.
The machine is located in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan.
It is definitely possible to significantly reduce your day-to-day waste … but it’s harder than it sounds.
Marium’s story went viral after she washed ashore in Thailand earlier this year.
The researchers have called for urgent research to assess the health risks of inhalation.
Awareness of how much plastic we use and throw away in Ireland has been growing in recent years.
We bash out the pros and cons on episode six of Ireland 2029.
Fionn Ferreira from Cork received a €45,000 bursary.
Naturalist David Attenborough appeared today before British MPs to discuss climate change.
Ireland currently recycles 33% of all plastics, which needs to rise to 50% in 2025 and 55% by 2030 to meet EU targets.
The Canadian Prime Minister has promised to ban single-use plastics “where supported by scientific evidence and warranted.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement today.
The framework “is historic in the sense that it is legally binding, said Rolph Payet of the United Nations Environment Programme.
The supermarket chain said that recycling stations will rolled out next month.
The Green Party has said the ban only addresses “the lowest of the low-hanging fruit”.
The problem costs €7 million per year to address.
‘Single-use’describes items whose unchecked proliferation are blamed for damaging the environment.
One local said that little plastic pins were “all over the Forty Foot, all the way up to the swimming baths”.
Several Dublin councils plan to install public water fountains in order to reduce the use of single-use plastics.
On average, every person in the EU consumes up to 106 litres of bottled water every year.
Lidl has confirmed that by next year it will have discontinued the sale of single-use plastics in its Irish stores.
But they aren’t going as far as their stores in the UK just yet.
According to Repak, Ireland’s plastic recycling must increase to 175,000 tonnes by 2030 to reach new EU targets.
Some 500,000 tonnes of plastic waste from the EU end up in the sea every year.
Litter is a big problem at many festivals.
40% of Irish rivers, beaches and harbours were littered or heavily littered, according to a new survey.
The company aims to remove all single-use plastic products by 2020.
Eight million tonnes of plastic are dumped into the Earth’s oceans and seas each year.
McDonald’s will begin the process of transferring to paper straws from September.
Some 500,000 tonnes of plastic waste from the EU end up in the sea every year.
We need to recognise the damage our plastic addiction is having on our planet, writes Professor Gordon Chambers.
It appears to feed exclusively on a type of plastic used widely in plastic bottles.
Similar schemes are already in place in Germany, Sweden and Denmark.
Campaigners are asking people to leave the excess plastic packaging with the cashier.
Most of the dump is made up of tiny fragments of plastic smaller than 5mm.
It’s one of the highest reported frequencies of microplastic occurrence in fish around the globe.