# recycling - Monday 31 December, 2018
Unnecessary use of the plastics will be completely banned in the public sector.
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# recycling - Monday 19 November, 2018
Her reasoning for doing so is pretty sound.
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# recycling - Tuesday 23 October, 2018
The Green Party said Ireland is sitting on its hands and waiting for the EU to legislate on plastics.
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# recycling - 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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# recycling - 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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# recycling - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
Recyclable and compostable options are only truly beneficial if they end up, and are processed, in the correct waste facility, writes industry expert Brian O’Sullivan.
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# recycling - Thursday 19 July, 2018
There is talk that a so-called latte levy might be introduced to combat waste.
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# recycling - Thursday 5 July, 2018
The changes are part of the restaurant’s green initiative which is being rolled out across all 110 outlets.
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# recycling - Sunday 1 July, 2018
Minister Denis Naughten is currently considering a range of environmental levies on single-use plastic products.
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# recycling - Thursday 14 June, 2018
Enough iron for 2.5 Eiffel towers and enough copper for 27 Statues of Liberty was recovered.
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# recycling - Thursday 24 May, 2018
The Environment Committee voted to ensure the set up of a bottle deposit scheme is compulsory.
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# recycling - Friday 27 April, 2018
The charges have been blamed on China’s decision to stop accepting and processing recycling materials.
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# recycling - Saturday 31 March, 2018
Dublin City Council is set to look at banning the cups.
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# recycling - Monday 19 March, 2018
On average Irish adults drink four hot drinks a week, with those aged 16-24 are the biggest spenders.
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# recycling - Wednesday 14 March, 2018
The company said it will be charging 80 cents per lift and 4.5 cents per kilogramme.
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# recycling - Tuesday 27 February, 2018
Cheap, disposable clothing has a big environmental impact.
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# recycling - 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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# recycling - Tuesday 9 January, 2018
Ireland is the top producer of plastic waste in the European Union.
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# recycling - Saturday 6 January, 2018
As a kid I remember collecting old Cidona bottles from the hedgerows and receiving five pence from the local shop for each one that I returned, writes Ciarán Cuffe.
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# recycling - Tuesday 2 January, 2018
There are centres up around the country to dispose of your tree for free.
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# recycling - Monday 27 November, 2017
Give it to us straight. Be honest.
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# recycling - Monday 30 October, 2017
The minister talks electric cars and why Michael Healy Rae is wrong to say they’re total rubbish.
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# recycling - Wednesday 25 October, 2017
The Swedish furniture giant is one of the biggest and most profitable retailers in the world.
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# recycling - Sunday 15 October, 2017
There’s a growing need to find more sustainable ways of dealing with waste in ireland.
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# recycling - Sunday 8 October, 2017
The Social Democrats want one.
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# recycling - Sunday 17 September, 2017
Dr Tara Shine said lessons were learned from the plastic bag levy and people should be rewarded for recycling.
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# recycling - Monday 11 September, 2017
Give it to us straight. Be honest.
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Despite calls from the Green Party to introduce such a plan, the minister is not budging.
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# recycling - Sunday 3 September, 2017
The 55,000 people who attended the festival will generate at least 400 tonnes of waste.
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# recycling - Tuesday 11 July, 2017
In a rare move, the Labour Party announced last week that it would co-sponsor the Green Party’s Waste Reduction Bill.
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The proposal is being debated before the Dáil tonight at 8.30pm.
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# recycling - Thursday 6 July, 2017
Give it to us straight. Be honest.
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# recycling - Monday 3 July, 2017
Minister Denis Naughten is looking at introducing large-scale recycling bins outside supermarkets in a bid to tackle waste at source.
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# recycling - Thursday 29 June, 2017
There was a significant increase in the level of plastic recycled.
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# recycling - Wednesday 28 June, 2017
The mandatory pay-by-weight scheme is to be scrapped.
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# recycling - 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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# recycling - Monday 22 May, 2017
It took a number of hours to free the animals.
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# recycling - Sunday 21 May, 2017
It comes after the pay-by-weight scheme was delayed last year.
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# recycling - Thursday 18 May, 2017
What do you really think? Be honest.
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