30/09/2003
Archived item. This item is published here for historical reasons. The information below may be out of date.
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: 30th Sept 03
Email:bhickey@sdublincoco.ie
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL - NATIONAL RECYCLING WEEK 03
29th September to 5th 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