Dublin start-up company Obeo believes the UK market
is wide open for a food waste box that helps take
the ‘yuck factor’ and the stink out of composting.
A local recycling company used an Invest Northern
Ireland Grant for R&D to develop an innovative
extended product range and took part in an Invest
NI trade mission to Saudi Arabia and the UAE to
identify new customers.
The EPA has released 2015 figures
on composting and anaerobic digestion of biodegradable
waste in Ireland, coinciding with the opening of the
Global Organic Resources Congress (GORC)
in Dublin.
WEEE Ireland partnered with Laois County Council
and Abbeyleix Tidy Towns to launch a pioneering
community initiative and battery recycling drive
on the 21st of April.
Of course, WEEE Ireland collection days are a great
way to recycle your stash of broken gadgets, appliances
and waste batteries (WEEE stands for Waste Electrical
and Electronic Equipment).
The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment
Tool (EPEAT) has approved European Recycling Platform’s
(ERP) recycling standard for the end-of-life management
of IT and Display equipment.
Research by Repak has revealed that the people
of Ireland set themselves for another feast of chocolate
consumption, even if the chocolate egg doesn't belong
to them, over Easter 2016.
Disposable coffee cups handed out in their billions
are "virtually impossible" to recycle despite major
cafe chains claiming theirs are eco-friendly, campaigners
have warned.
The latest data and indepth information about UK
plastics recycling and reprocessing was published
last week in an updated Plastics Market Situation
Report.