The third European Week for Waste Reduction runs from 19th to 27th November 2011. The idea of the European Week for Waste Reduction is to raise awareness about the waste reduction strategies of EU and Member States, and to encourage behaviour changes to promote more sustainable consumption and production: such changes yielding both environmental and … Read more
The third European Week for Waste Reduction runs from 19th to 27th November 2011. The idea of the European Week for Waste Reduction is to raise awareness about the waste reduction strategies of EU and Member States, and to encourage behaviour changes to promote more sustainable consumption and production: such changes yielding both environmental and … Read more
Kerry County Council has decided to sell its refuse collection service to Killarney-based KWD Recycling. From December 5th, 2011, all customers of Kerry County Council’s refuse collection service will have their bins collected by KWD Recycling. All Kerry County Council staff involved in the refuse collection service will be redeployed across the organisation. The … Read more
Retail giant IKEA is now recycling 85% of its waste across all of its 19 stores in UK and Ireland, and has become ‘cost-positive’ in the process with no disposal costs. Speaking at WRAP’s annual conference yesterday (November 15), IKEA’s sustainable development manager Charlie Browne said the company had reduced the cost of its waste … Read more
The University of Ulster is to host a free training programme for local construction companies in a bid to help reduce the 4 million tonnes of waste produced by the industry each year. It is estimated that only around one third of Northern Ireland’s construction, demolition and excavation waste is currently reused or recycled. But … Read more
Rehab Recycle’s new state-of-the-art WEEE recycling facility in Ballymount has been officially opened. The new facility has the capacity to process 10,000 tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment every year. Every year in Ireland an average of 9kg of waste electrical goods is recycled per head of population; this is 3.5kg above the European … Read more
South Dublin County Council will pilot the new ‘Fixyourstreet’ web site. Fixyourstreet is a publicly accessible web site with associated mobile technologies on which non emergency issues such as street lighting, drainage, graffiti, illegal dumping, road and footpath maintenance can be reported. The pilot will run for a period of three months in South Dublin … Read more
Manchester Airport and MITIE, the strategic outsourcing and energy services company, have signed a deal to support achieving a target of zero waste to landfill from the international airport by 2030. The £1.5m contract will run for three years with possible extension of two years. MITIE’s work at Manchester Airport will include the installation of … Read more
Wicklow-based Envirogreen Recycling is aiming to create 65 new jobs over the next year, with the introduction of Ireland’s first residential mattress recycling service. Set up in 2009, the family-run company, which provides recycling services to commercial customers in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, operates two materials recovery facilities in Wicklow and Tyrone. … Read more
The Government has published a discussion document for public consultation concerning the development of a new national waste policy. The Programme for Government commits to putting in place a national waste policy that will adhere to the EU waste hierarchy and deliver a coherent approach to waste management, minimising the waste going to landfill and … Read more