# plastic - Sunday 13 December, 2020
# Poll
# Poll
Limiting waste isn’t always at the top of the priority list at Christmas.
# plastic - Saturday 12 December, 2020
# Festive Waste
# Festive Waste
Environmental campaigner Lyndsey O’Connell explains how our online festive shopping habits are leading to an excess of cardboard and plastic waste.
# plastic - Wednesday 19 August, 2020
# Your Say
# Your Say
Plastic levels in the Atlantic Ocean are likely to be much higher than previous estimates suggested.
# plastic - Tuesday 18 August, 2020
# Pollution
# Pollution
Researchers believe plastic levels in the Atlantic are ten times higher than previous estimates suggest.
# plastic - Thursday 14 November, 2019
# Recycling
# Recycling
The initial trial will run for four weeks in seven restaurants in the UK and Ireland.
# plastic - Monday 30 September, 2019
# Monaghan
# Monaghan
The machine is located in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan.
# plastic - Friday 30 August, 2019
# No Waste
# No Waste
It is definitely possible to significantly reduce your day-to-day waste … but it’s harder than it sounds.
# plastic - Saturday 17 August, 2019
# Marium
# Marium
Marium’s story went viral after she washed ashore in Thailand earlier this year.
# plastic - Thursday 15 August, 2019
# Microplastics
# Microplastics
The researchers have called for urgent research to assess the health risks of inhalation.
# plastic - Thursday 1 August, 2019
# Your Say
# Your Say
Awareness of how much plastic we use and throw away in Ireland has been growing in recent years.
# plastic - Wednesday 31 July, 2019
# Ireland 2029
# Ireland 2029
We bash out the pros and cons on episode six of Ireland 2029.
# plastic - Tuesday 30 July, 2019
# Oceans
# Oceans
Fionn Ferreira from Cork received a €45,000 bursary.
# plastic - Tuesday 9 July, 2019
# Tough Talking
# Tough Talking
Naturalist David Attenborough appeared today before British MPs to discuss climate change.
# plastic - Thursday 27 June, 2019
# Flying The Green Flag
# Flying The Green Flag
Ireland currently recycles 33% of all plastic s, which needs to rise to 50% in 2025 and 55% by 2030 to meet EU targets.
# plastic - Wednesday 12 June, 2019
# Your Say
# Your Say
The Canadian Prime Minister has promised to ban single-use plastic s “where supported by scientific evidence and warranted.”
# plastic - Monday 10 June, 2019
# Recycling
# Recycling
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement today.
# plastic - Saturday 11 May, 2019
# United Nations
# United Nations
The framework “is historic in the sense that it is legally binding, said Rolph Payet of the United Nations Environment Programme.
# plastic - Wednesday 10 April, 2019
# Recycling
# Recycling
The supermarket chain said that recycling stations will rolled out next month.
# plastic - Friday 4 January, 2019
# Environment
# Environment
The Green Party has said the ban only addresses “the lowest of the low-hanging fruit”.
# plastic - Sunday 18 November, 2018
# Plastic Problem
# Plastic Problem
The problem costs €7 million per year to address.
# plastic - Wednesday 7 November, 2018
# Trash Talk
# Trash Talk
‘Single-use’describes items whose unchecked proliferation are blamed for damaging the environment.
# plastic - Monday 5 November, 2018
# Dublin Coast
# Dublin Coast
One local said that little plastic pins were “all over the Forty Foot, all the way up to the swimming baths”.
# plastic - Sunday 4 November, 2018
# Your Say
# Your Say
Several Dublin councils plan to install public water fountains in order to reduce the use of single-use plastic s.
# plastic - Saturday 27 October, 2018
# Plastic
# Plastic
On average, every person in the EU consumes up to 106 litres of bottled water every year.
# plastic - Sunday 7 October, 2018
# Your Say
# Your Say
Lidl has confirmed that by next year it will have discontinued the sale of single-use plastic s in its Irish stores.
# Environment
# Environment
But they aren’t going as far as their stores in the UK just yet.
# plastic - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
# OFF TARGET
# OFF TARGET
According to Repak, Ireland’s plastic recycling must increase to 175,000 tonnes by 2030 to reach new EU targets.
# plastic - Sunday 2 September, 2018
# Food Waste
# Food Waste
Some 500,000 tonnes of plastic waste from the EU end up in the sea every year.
# plastic - Saturday 18 August, 2018
# Sustainability
# Sustainability
Litter is a big problem at many festivals.
# plastic - Monday 13 August, 2018
# Your Say
# Your Say
40% of Irish rivers, beaches and harbours were littered or heavily littered, according to a new survey.
# plastic - Monday 16 July, 2018
# Clutching At Straws
# Clutching At Straws
The company aims to remove all single-use plastic products by 2020.
# plastic - Sunday 8 July, 2018
# Plastic Waste
# Plastic Waste
Eight million tonnes of plastic are dumped into the Earth’s oceans and seas each year.
# plastic - Friday 15 June, 2018
# Recycle
# Recycle
McDonald’s will begin the process of transferring to paper straws from September.
# plastic - Monday 28 May, 2018
# Marine Litter
# Marine Litter
Some 500,000 tonnes of plastic waste from the EU end up in the sea every year.
# plastic - Wednesday 25 April, 2018
# Read Me
# Read Me
We need to recognise the damage our plastic addiction is having on our planet, writes Professor Gordon Chambers.
# plastic - Tuesday 17 April, 2018
# Surprise Discovery
# Surprise Discovery
It appears to feed exclusively on a type of plastic used widely in plastic bottles.
# plastic - Wednesday 28 March, 2018
# Your Say
# Your Say
Similar schemes are already in place in Germany, Sweden and Denmark.
# plastic - Saturday 24 March, 2018
# Your Say
# Your Say
Campaigners are asking people to leave the excess plastic packaging with the cashier.
# plastic - Friday 23 March, 2018
# Ocean Rescue
# Ocean Rescue
Most of the dump is made up of tiny fragments of plastic smaller than 5mm.
# plastic - Monday 19 February, 2018
# Plastic Pollution
# Plastic Pollution
It’s one of the highest reported frequencies of microplastic occurrence in fish around the globe.
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