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[Article] Christmas a 'whole heap of rubbish'

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23-12-2003 6:33pm

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Christmas a 'whole heap of rubbish'
23/12/2003 - 11:54:51 am

Householders will generate enough packaging waste this Christmas to cover Lansdowne rugby pitch 336 times.

On average, each household consumes 16 bottles of wine, 50 beverage cans, 83 plastic bottles and 3 rolls of gift wrap, representing a 30% increase in used packaging generated over other times of the year.

Nationwide, Irish householders will consume 20 million bottles of wine, 106 million plastic bottles, 64 million beverage cans and nearly four million rolls of wrapping paper over the Christmas period.

In wine bottles alone this would stretch from Dublin to Miami (6,701 kilometres).

Repak is encouraging householders to recycle all possible waste.

Andrew Hetherington, CEO of Repak said: "Most of these materials are highly recyclable."

The 77 Repak Green Christmas centres around the country will accept a wider range of materials than normal and will open for longer hours to make it as easy as possible to recycle. The initiative aims to recycle 6,000 tonnes of waste, including drinks cans, wine bottles, plastic bottles, cardboard and wrapping paper over the Christmas period.

In addition, the existing network of almost 2,000 bring banks will help to facilitate the recycling of aluminium drink cans and glass bottles and jars.

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