A family in quarantine at a Dublin hotel has expressed shock at the “mountains” of waste plastic and paper that has built up in just one week of their stay.
Veolia Ireland is proud to announce that it has earned the Intel Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) Award for 2020. Through its dedication to continuous quality improvement, Veolia has achieved a level of performance that consistently exceeds Intel’s expectations.
Setting aside just one day a week to make a meal using solely ingredients already present in the kitchen could slash household food waste by a third, a new study has found - indicating that encouraging small behavioural changes can make significant inroads into shrinking the world's food waste mountain.
Indiscriminate dumpers of litter and rubbish have been blamed for a major bog fire which caused significant damage to land and a wildlife habitat near the town of Strokestown in Co Roscommon recently.
Northern Ireland Environment Minister Edwin Poots has welcomed a new partnership that will fund training places for packaging technologists in a drive to find more sustainable alternatives to single-use plastics.
Waitrose has announced it is to stop selling children's magazines that contain plastic disposable toys, in response to a campaign by a 10-year-old girl from Gwynedd, who launched a petition to persuade publishers to end the practice.
Clothing and textiles manufacturers could be forced to pay more towards the costs of recycling their products at the end of their lifespan, as part of a host of plans to combat waste and support the circular economy which were unveiled by the UK government last week.
If we are to tackle climate change, it needs to be easier to prevent food waste - and, if not, then to redistribute it to people who need it, than it is to send to landfill.
Irish households and cafés are dumping food at a rate of more than 100kg per person every year in careless practices that are adding to an international food waste crisis.
The amount of electrical waste recycled at local authority centres rose by 10% last year - the equivalent of half a million small appliances, new data from WEEE Ireland shows.
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