# waste - Friday 3 December, 2021
# Recycling
# Recycling
There’s “significant cause for concern” from these figures according to an EPA Senior Scientist.
# waste - Wednesday 10 November, 2021
# Fast Fashion
# Fast Fashion
Caitriona Rogerson highlights the social and environmental cost of the second-hand clothing trade on African countries.
# waste - Friday 10 September, 2021
# Recycling
# Recycling
Our recycling rate has continued to decline.
# waste - Wednesday 1 September, 2021
# Dose Wastage
# Dose Wastage
Reasons for dose wastage include cracked vials, errors in diluting vaccines, freezer malfunctions and more doses in a vial than people who want them.
# waste - Tuesday 3 August, 2021
# Waste
# Waste
The fee could be introduced later this year or early next year.
# waste - Monday 21 June, 2021
# Scotland
# Scotland
A probe found that items earmarked for destruction at a Scottish warehouse.
# waste - Saturday 27 February, 2021
# What A Waste
# What A Waste
Fine Gael Senator Regina Doherty recently hit out at the “phenomenal” amount of dog faeces in Irish villages.
Rory McNab shares his newfound love of collecting litter along Dublin’s Grand Canal, which has provided an unexpected pick-me-up in lockdown.
# waste - Sunday 13 December, 2020
# Poll
# Poll
Limiting waste isn’t always at the top of the priority list at Christmas.
# waste - 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.
# waste - Friday 11 December, 2020
# Hazardous Waste
# Hazardous Waste
581,000 tonnes of hazardous waste were produced in Ireland in 2019.
# waste - Thursday 12 November, 2020
# EPA
# EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency is sharply critical of Irish Water in its latest report.
# waste - Wednesday 16 September, 2020
# Rubbish
# Rubbish
Recycling of packaging waste has declined from 70% in 2013 to 64% in 2018.
# waste - Thursday 11 June, 2020
# Howth
# Howth
“They’ve failed to keep any of their promises to date,” one local said of the water utility.
# waste - Thursday 30 April, 2020
# Lockdown Littering
# Lockdown Littering
The authority called the increase “disappointing and unacceptable”.
# waste - Monday 30 December, 2019
# Climate Action
# Climate Action
The government will also examine expanding the range of items allowed in the green bin and banning bulky waste from landfill.
# waste - Thursday 28 November, 2019
# Illegal Dumping
# Illegal Dumping
Illegal dumping is a major problem for communities across the country.
# waste - Wednesday 6 November, 2019
# Recycling
# Recycling
A levy on fast-food takeaway containers is also on the way.
# waste - Sunday 20 October, 2019
# Waste
# Waste
This Bill would leapfrog over the government’s strategy, which Fianna Fáil has said is slow to materialise.
# waste - Saturday 21 September, 2019
# Big Beach Clean
# Big Beach Clean
Events for the Big Beach Clean 2019 are happening around the country this weekend.
# waste - Saturday 31 August, 2019
# Your Say
# Your Say
Last year, bulldozers were brought in to clear thousands of leftover tents after Electric Picnic.
# waste - 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.
# waste - Monday 19 November, 2018
# Samantha Ravndahl
From The Daily Edge
# Samantha Ravndahl
Her reasoning for doing so is pretty sound.
# waste - Sunday 9 September, 2018
# Waste
# Waste
Next Saturday, groups who take part join together to clean up illegal waste in their local area.
# waste - Saturday 8 September, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# waste - Monday 3 September, 2018
# Environment
# Environment
One festival attendee said that there was “millions of euro worth of stuff left behind”.
# waste - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# waste - Sunday 8 July, 2018
# Plastic Waste
# Plastic Waste
Eight million tonnes of plastic are dumped into the Earth’s oceans and seas each year.
# waste - Sunday 18 March, 2018
# Funding
# Funding
An anti-dumping initiative supported 229 projects across the country last year.
# waste - Tuesday 27 February, 2018
# Ringaskiddy
# Ringaskiddy
An Bord Pleanala says a decision will be made within three months.
# waste - Sunday 4 February, 2018
# Rubbish
# Rubbish
A new initiative is helping businesses move towards a zero food waste strategy.
# waste - Saturday 3 February, 2018
# Final Straw
# Final Straw
We talked to them to find out more about the reasons behind the decision.
# waste - Sunday 28 January, 2018
# Gotcha
# Gotcha
These operations were run by the Pure project, which has been running for the last ten years.
# waste - Saturday 6 January, 2018
# Recycling
# Recycling
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.
# waste - Monday 27 November, 2017
# Lunch Crunch
# Lunch Crunch
Give it to us straight. Be honest.
# waste - Friday 24 November, 2017
# Repak
# Repak
Repak wants online retailers to contribute to recycling efforts being made here in Ireland.
# waste - Monday 30 October, 2017
# Driving Mr Naughten
# Driving Mr Naughten
The minister talks electric cars and why Michael Healy Rae is wrong to say they’re total rubbish.
# waste - Sunday 17 September, 2017
# Waste Reduction
# Waste Reduction
Dr Tara Shine said lessons were learned from the plastic bag levy and people should be rewarded for recycling.
# waste - Tuesday 29 August, 2017
# Irish Cement
# Irish Cement
Irish Cement wants to burn tyres and other industrial waste at its factory in Mungret.
# waste - Monday 28 August, 2017
# Video Footage
# Video Footage
Greyhound Household has released video footage of Dublin residents verbally abusing staff members.
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