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Wednesday 3 March 2021
Rory McNab shares his newfound love of collecting litter along Dublin’s Grand Canal, which has provided an unexpected pick-me-up in lockdown.
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.
581,000 tonnes of hazardous waste were produced in Ireland in 2019.
The Environmental Protection Agency is sharply critical of Irish Water in its latest report.
Recycling of packaging waste has declined from 70% in 2013 to 64% in 2018.
“They’ve failed to keep any of their promises to date,” one local said of the water utility.
The authority called the increase “disappointing and unacceptable”.
The government will also examine expanding the range of items allowed in the green bin and banning bulky waste from landfill.
Illegal dumping is a major problem for communities across the country.
A levy on fast-food takeaway containers is also on the way.
This Bill would leapfrog over the government’s strategy, which Fianna Fáil has said is slow to materialise.
Events for the Big Beach Clean 2019 are happening around the country this weekend.
Last year, bulldozers were brought in to clear thousands of leftover tents after Electric Picnic.
It is definitely possible to significantly reduce your day-to-day waste … but it’s harder than it sounds.
Her reasoning for doing so is pretty sound.
Next Saturday, groups who take part join together to clean up illegal waste in their local area.
Green Party Councillor Claire Byrne knows all about trying to keep festival sites clean – and says we need to stop seeing tents as disposable, and look at what we can do to clean up after ourselves.
One festival attendee said that there was “millions of euro worth of stuff left behind”.
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.
Eight million tonnes of plastic are dumped into the Earth’s oceans and seas each year.
An anti-dumping initiative supported 229 projects across the country last year.
An Bord Pleanala says a decision will be made within three months.
A new initiative is helping businesses move towards a zero food waste strategy.
We talked to them to find out more about the reasons behind the decision.
These operations were run by the Pure project, which has been running for the last ten years.
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.
Repak wants online retailers to contribute to recycling efforts being made here in Ireland.
The minister talks electric cars and why Michael Healy Rae is wrong to say they’re total rubbish.
Dr Tara Shine said lessons were learned from the plastic bag levy and people should be rewarded for recycling.
Irish Cement wants to burn tyres and other industrial waste at its factory in Mungret.
Greyhound Household has released video footage of Dublin residents verbally abusing staff members.
Give it to us straight. Be honest.
“We are in the House of Parliament on national television,” cried out the Leas Ceann Comhairle.
Both Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil have tabled motions on the issue.
The mandatory pay-by-weight scheme is to be scrapped.
The controversial pay-by-weight scheme has been replaced with this new regime.
Give it to us straight. Be honest.
The activist group ‘Parents Against the Incinerator’ are holding a meeting this evening. Here’s a bit of what will be discussed.
THE NUMBER OF people in hospital with Covid-19 on Monday night fell to the lowest level since New Year’s Eve.
There were 494 patients in hospital at 8pm on Monday, the first time this number has fallen below 500 so far in 2021. It has also fallen significantly since a peak of 2,020 cases in mid-January.
Last night a further 359 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Ireland, representing the lowest number of cases reported on a single day since mid-December.
On 23 February, Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced the government’s new Living with Covid-19 plan and confirmed that the current public health restrictions will remain in place until 5 April, when a further review will be carried out.
Ahead of the unveiling of the plan, Minister Michael McGrath told RTÉ’s News at One that “there can be no fourth wave coming to Ireland”, adding that “what we are doing now, we need to make sure that we are doing for the last time”.
In the North, Stormont’s First Minister Arlene Foster last night vowed that Northern Ireland must never return to lockdown after a cautious plan to ease restrictions was published.
So, today we want to know… Do you think this will be Ireland’s last Level 5 lockdown?
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