Nestle Ireland is the first major confectioner to announce its entire Easter egg packaging is 100% recyclable by replacing rigid plastic with cardboard in its mug eggs. With Easter eggs creating 375,000 kilos of waste in Ireland each year, the manufacturer of Smarties, Kit Kat and Aero Easter eggs, has become the first major confectioner … Read more
Clare County Council, in association with An Taisce, is urging people all over Clare to get involved in the 14th annual National Spring Clean Campaign. Last year, hundreds of people across the county and more than a half a million people nationally came together to organise clean up events in their communities. Participation in this … Read more
In Ireland, 636 kg of municipal waste was generated per person in 2010, the fourth highest in the EU. 57% of this waste was landfilled, 4% was incinerated, 35% was recycled and 4% was composted. In the EU27 overall, 502 kg of municipal waste1 was generated per person in 2010, while 486 kg of municipal … Read more
Ireland should increase and diversify the variety of natural materials it uses to produce energy and heat, according to a new report by the Committee on Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht. Special consideration should be given to organic waste such as tree cuttings and trimmings from forests and farm slurry, according the report which … Read more
There has been a marked improvement in environmental awareness in Ireland over the past decade reveals the ConsEnSus Lifestyle Survey just published today by NUI Galway and funded under the EPA’s STRIVE Research programme. The same survey reports that approximately one fifth of all survey respondents had changed their energy supplier to a renewable energy … Read more
Galway headquartered waste management firm, The City Bin Co, has scooped two national awards from one of the world’s top business consultancies. Having just won the Deloitte ‘Best Managed Companies’ accolade for the fourth year in a row, the company has capped it with the Deloitte ‘Gold Standard’ Award for 2012. Established in 1997, The … Read more
The world’s first commercially available environmentally friendly chewing gum, Rev7, is set to launch in Ireland this summer following a distribution deal with Topaz, Ireland’s largest fuel and service station group. Rev7 is already available in the United States and this summer’s launch will be its European debut. Produced by British polymer company Revolymer, Rev7 … Read more
NTR, the Dubin-based investor in renewable energy and sustainable waste management businesses, has increased its shareholding in Wind Capital Group, its US-based wind energy business, from 62% to 97%. In recent months, NTR has also invested further capital in Wind Capital Group. Wind Capital Group’s 201MW Post Rock wind energy project is scheduled to come … Read more
Ireland’s packaging recovery and recycling rates continue to exceed EU packaging recycling targets, according to statistics contained in the latest EPA National Waste Report. The EU target for packaging recovery was 60% in 2011 with Ireland’s recovery rate of about 74% for 2010, placing it in the top six amongst other and longer established European … Read more
Ireland is well advanced in achieving most of the EU waste recovery and recycling targets, with the exception of end of life vehicle targets, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Waste Report 2010. The economic downturn is having a marked influence on municipal waste generation, which has decreased by 16 per cent since … Read more