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Corporation Recycling Scheme

simu · 2005-12-15 23:53:10

Cork Corporation has a recycling scheme in place where people put their paper, plastics, cans and so on in special bags that get collected seperately from normal waste. I was just wondering where this stuff goes and how much of it is actually recycled. Anyone have any ideas?

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16-12-2005 12:53am

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Cork Corporation has a recycling scheme in place where people put their paper, plastics, cans and so on in special bags that get collected seperately from normal waste.

I was just wondering where this stuff goes and how much of it is actually recycled.

Anyone have any ideas?

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#2 16-12-2005 10:08am
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Galway have a similar scheme. I think the metal goes to galway metals (local scrap metal merchants)? I heard this about 6th hand so it probably isn't correct!!:D

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#3 16-12-2005 11:44pm
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People in Cork are getting suspicious that it all ends up in landfills - if you see the back of the pick-up trucks, they seem to compress the bags very muchwhich would make sorting the stuff far more difficult later on you'd think!

/places tinfoil hat upon head

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