Nat Recycling week in South Dublin County

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30/09/2003

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Issued on behalf of the Council                                                  Document Title:                         National Recycling Week 03

by B Hickey Head of Corporate Services                         Author                        A McDermott

Tel: 4149100                                                  Creation Date: 30^th Sept 03

                                Email:bhickey@sdublincoco.ie

               

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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL - NATIONAL RECYCLING WEEK 03

29^th September to 5^th  October 2003

START RECYCLING – KEEP RECYCLING

 

South Dublin County Council and REPAK call on you to start recycling this week by taking all you glass, cans, paper, cardboard and plastic to your nearest recycling centre.

 

Between January and June 2003, at South Dublin’s 24 can banks, householders recycled 637,800 cans – the equivalent of 16.7 tonnes of aluminium.  A further 810 tonnes of glass were recycled in the area during this period.

 

Last year approximately 4,367 tonnes of packaging was recycled throughout the month of October and it is hoped to increase this by 30% this year. In 2002 Repak funded the recycling of approximately 50,000 tonnes of packaging waste sourced from the domestic waste stream. This was 60% up on the previous year, however we in Ireland are still dumping in excess of 60% of used packaging that should be recycled.

 

In addition, the Council also provides a Green Bin to householders for recycling of paper, cardboard, aluminium and tin in their own homes. To date, 68,000 houses our of 75,000 have this door to door recycling facilities.

 

South Dublin County Council will provide, over the coming months, a number of new recycling facilities ( (Bring Banks) in the near future ( see photos of new facility just delivered to Rathfarnham )

 

South Dublin County Council hopes the public will fully utilise the range of Bringbanks, Civic Amenity Sites and Green Waste facility in our area.  For full details see www.southdublin.ie/environment or phone environment at 4149000 ext. 4248.” or www.repak.ie

 

Details of your nearest centre are listed on the attached sheets also

 

To ensure that you are recycling correctly remember :

 

Cans;- wash and crush for recycling

Glass;- do not mix colours. Blue in the blue container, Green in green etc.

Paper:- dry paper, cardboard, newspaper and magazines are all accepted

Plastic bottles;- remove lids, wash and squash for recycling –

NO to yoghurt cartons, spread tubs, polystyrene, DIY or chemical bottles

 

Why Recycle?

Aluminium;- Aluminium is made from Bauxite ore which is a non- renewable renewable resource . Aluminium is use d to package a wide range of consumer goods. Over 300 million aluminium cans are sold in Ireland every year

 

Paper;- Paper is made from trees. It takes 17 trees to make 1 tonne of paper.

Paper is used widely to package a wide variety of goods

Recycling paper saves trees and reduces the requirement for expensive landfill sites

 

List of Bring Banks locations in South Dublin County ;-

 

Ballyboden         The Buglers         Cans/bottles

Ballymount          Civic Amenity Centre      Cans/bottles

Camac Valley (off Naas Rd)               Bottles

Clondalkin         The Mill Shopping Centre   Cans/bottles

Clondalkin         Ballyowen Castle Shopping Ctr.   Cans/bottles

Clondalkin         Ronanstown Garda Station   Cans

Clondalkin         Red Cow Complex      Bottles

Clondalkin/Naas Rd      C’dalkin Junior Rugby Club   Bottles

Firhouse            Supervalue          Cans/bottles

Kilnamanagh         Dunnes Stores         Cans

Kilnamanagh Family Rec. Centre               Bottles

Knocklyon         Superquinn         Cans/bottles

Lucan            Superquinn         Cans/bottles

Lucan             Tesco            Cans/bottles

Lucan            Supervalue         Bottles

Lucan            Lord Lucan Pub         Bottles

Palmerstown         Supervalue         Cans/bottles

Palmerstown         Vincent L. Byrne      Bottles

Rathfarnham         Tesco            Bottles  

Tymon Park         Colaiste De Hide      Cans

Tallaght Village          Kingsbery/Iceland      Cans/bottles

Tallaght            St. Mary’s N.S.         Cans

Tallaght            The Square         Cans/bottles

Tallaght            Cuckoo’s Nest         Cans/bottles

Tallaght            Jobstown Inn         Cans

Tallaght             Molloys Car Park      Cans

Tallaght         Abberley Court Car Park      Cans

Templeogue         United Football Club      Cans

Saggart City West      Xilinx            Cans

Saggart City West      Jones Environmental      Cans   

 

Ballymount Civic Amenity Centre                                                 Plastic