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2019 Initiative to Tackle Illegal Dumping
Flytipping : Gov. promises €3m to prevent illegal dumping. Applications now open to €3m Fund (1 – 30th April) The Government today announced funding of €3million to the Anti-Dumping Initiative. This will support communities around the country to tackle illegal dumping, the so-called ‘flytipping’. This money will step up the chances of catching the flytipping offenders and…
Zero Wasters: Prepare For House Calls
Will Households who are not signed up for bin collection be inspected? The Government’s announcement last week (4/2/19) about a nationwide offensive to be launched against tens of thousands of homes who are not using authorised bin-collection companies raises serious issues of privacy as well as questions about competition and householder incentives. They plan to…
Sick of Plastic Progress
We’re fully behind the #SickOfPlastic campaign and today we offer our platform to Claudia Tormey, from the Sick of Plastic Campaign to tell you about the progress to date. There’s a lot achieved , a way to go, but we’re motoring ahead. Well done to all ! Claudia reports that…….. The campaign has delivered 21,235…
Spot a pollution issue? Here’s how to complain.
Very often we see environmental problems, breaches of the law and assume someone else has reported it. That may be a mistake. Never assume that someone else will do it. You are that someone! You have a powerful tool at your disposal to help enforcement – it’s your mobile phone, contact list and camera. That’s…
Christmas & Your Food Waste
We encourage homes and businesses to do what they can to avoid wasting food this Christmas. The Foodwaste reduction effort begins long before the time you purchase. How big an issue is Foodwaste? Recent research revealed that for the first time ever, we will spend more than €1billion on groceries during the month of December.…
Red Alert! We’re Europe’s leading…Climate Change Laggard
Red alert on Climate change inactivity The good news first ….it’s official. We’ve moved up one position in the climate change action league table. That should be enough for our laggard government politicians to spin into a good news story. But the reality trumps rhetoric. Our current reality is stark and it will hit us deep in…
EU Climate change Ambition Needs Your Support
We’ve disturbing news to relate on climate change progress. We’ve learned from a Guardian story of a Leaked memo showing business tactics to undermine the EU’s revised 2030 climate change targets. BusinessEurope, the Brussels based group of business interests in Europe – which includes Google and Facebook as well as IBEC– has advised its members to oppose…
Make your July Plastic Free
How did Plastic Free July start? Plastic Free July in an attempt to break free from single-use plastics. Plastic Free July is an international campaign that originated in and is based in Australia to create awareness about plastic pollution and to empower people to find alternatives to single-use plastics. The concerns and actions are global. During…
Illegal dumping – RTE reveals illegal dump sites
Yesterday the RTE Investigates team (Karrie Kehoe and Conor Ryan) revealed what is already a commonly known fact. Our Councils and the EPA are simply not policing our Waste regulations to the level required. Illegal dumping is pervasive. Illegal dumping – the revelations. The RTE programme ‘Ireland’s Wild Waste Programme’ makes for stark viewing. There appears…
Cooling the fires – Incineration subsidies to be phased out in the EU
EU Member States to phase-out subsidies for incineration. @Europarl_EN & @EUCouncil bring #RenewableEnergy more in line with #CircularEconomy Blow for burners : Incineration industry subsidies are set to go. These revised provisions will bring the Circular Economy more into the fore of policy implementation, taking subsidies away from non-favoured practices. Latest EU Policy : Member…
EPA warning on 2020 climate targets : Action needed
EPA climate pollution data – the trend is going the wrong way. The latest climate warning, backed by data, from the EPA says in no uncertain terms that Ireland will miss its 2020 climate pollution target by 19 percentage points. This is the cumulative impact of over 20 years of lip service but inaction from successive…
Have You Reached the Last Straw Yet?
Are we reaching the Last Straw? There are 8,500,000,000 reasons why. The long-suffering, captive Irish consumer has had enough of plastic waste! We’re at the last straw, figuratively and maybe in reality too. Plastic Waste We’ve reached # the Last Straw. How timely then, that despite all our urging in the past to eliminate needless…
