Painful Plastic

[kmk]

Hi all , I would like to know if any other counties Plastic recycling centers have been taken away... recently all the local Plastic centers have been closed and according to the council there is only 1 dump collecting plastic in the whole county of wexford... They want us to be green but then they take away all facilities. I have a bee in my bonet about this and what I would really like to know has this happened nationwide.. so come on advise for your county.............. Many thanks.. a P'd of recycling person in wexford.....

[just4now]

Fingal CoCo runs a number of recycling sites that take plastics Fingal County Council - Recycling . But I am sceptical about what ultimately happens to much of our carefully seperated waste - what ends up in landfill or burnt on third world wasteland?

[kmk]

Hi there just4now but that web site really doesnt give that much info... all so vague... and applies to Fingal.. I think it all a very big grey area...there is no definitive what u can and what u cant do.... I have sent several email to FG,FF,Sinn F,Greens and no answer for the last few weeks...

I have spent the last few hours trying to sus out this whole area... I am wondering if I could swindle a few bob from somewhere could I set up something??/??????

[JCSkinner]

I have some serious questions about recycling in Ireland:

Skin Flicks: Recycling: some questions

[soubresauts]

There's a new Government website relevant to this: the Market Development Programme for Waste Resources

See web page under Materials>Plastics there.

[The OD]

I have some serious questions about recycling in Ireland:

Skin Flicks: Recycling: some questions

I dont, most of it is simply buried with the rest of the landfill material, those green wheel bins are nothing but a PR exercise.

Did anyone think otherwise?

[Christel]

Hi all , I would like to know if any other counties Plastic recycling centers have been taken away... recently all the local Plastic centers have been closed and according to the council there is only 1 dump collecting plastic in the whole county of wexford... They want us to be green but then they take away all facilities. I have a bee in my bonet about this and what I would really like to know has this happened nationwide.. so come on advise for your county.............. Many thanks.. a P'd of recycling person in wexford.....

Leitrim has no plastics bring banks since a few years. I didn't understand this withdrawal either at the time. It coincided with the introduction that people within 250m of main roads needed to get bins from private operators, and with two new "civic amenity centres" in the country were you can drive 40 kilometers to bring your recycables to. We are quite near to Co. Cavan fortunately and use their plastic bring banks.