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Recycling Polypropylene (PP) plastic in Dublin?

  • 09-07-2007 9:53am
    #1
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭


    I've amased a large selection of PP packaging from take-away meals, plastic packaging and such, but now can't find anywhere to recycle it in Dublin. Ballyogan doesn't take it, but yet it PP appears to achieve a similar price per kg on the recycling markets as HDPE, LDPE or PET at bulk rates.

    Any idea what I can do with the growing bags of PP?


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  • #2
    belleray
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭belleray


    Have you tried dublinwaste.ie? they have a sectoin where you choose what you want to recycle and it tells you where you can take it


  • #3
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Yeah, it's a pain alright. Types 1 and 2 (PETE and HDPE) are collected in my green bin here in Bray, but type 5 (PP), which seems nowadays to be the bulk of what remains in my grey bin after recyclables and compostable food waste are taken out isn't accepted.

    Actually a lot of waste disposal places are pretty vague about what exactly they accept and what they don't. If they'd just use the standard recycling codes for plastics instead of vague descriptions of typical uses for the plastics they accept, it'd make life a lot easier.


  • #4
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    Yes Alun - the dublinwaste site just treats plastic as 'plastic' and does not discriminate. Very poor.


  • #5
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    Any further ideas where I can recycle PP plastic?


  • #6
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    Just bumping this in light of the single logo plan in the UK...
    http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/business/mhmhidkfsnau/

    Does anybody know where I can recycle PP plastic in Dublin?

    It's worth the same as PET when sold in bulk...
    http://www.recycle.net/Plastic/pp/index.html
    http://www.recycle.net/Plastic/PET/index.html?affilid=100000


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  • #7
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    10-10-20 wrote: »
    Just bumping this in light of the single logo plan in the UK...
    http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/business/mhmhidkfsnau/

    From that article ...
    The new logo contains symbols which indicate three different levels of recyclables for packaging.

    Those categories are: widely recycled; check locally; and not currently recycled.
    How on earth is that going to help? For the first two you're going to have to check anyway since 'widely' isn't the same as 'always'. A dumbing down waste of time if you ask me.

    Now one thing they could do to improve things is to make the existing recycling symbols a) obligatory, b) much bigger, and c) more legible. I sometimes literally have to get a magnifying glass and hold the packaging at a slanty angle to catch the light just right, just to be able to read it.


  • #8
    sarahirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭sarahirl


    we've just been told off by our local bring centre for bringing 'hard plastics' to recycle. I never knew that there were different types of plastics and that some can't be recycled. have found a link on the dublinwaste.ie site http://www.dublinwaste.ie/files/plastics%20Recycling.pdf which tells the difference between the various plastics. Yet if you read it, there are cross-overs in the packaging applications.... So the confusion continues. Think I'm gonna print this up, go up to the bring centre guys n get them to say which plastic types they take and then bring the rest back to tesco and tell them to deal with it... Or would that just get me banned from tesco?


  • #9
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    balleally take all plastic except expanded types


  • #10
    doodlbug18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭doodlbug18


    The Dun Laoghaire Rathdown recyling centre at Eden Park, Glasthule takes almost all plastics including PP & Polystyrene.

    http://www.dlrcoco.ie/env/edenpk_recycling.htm

    For some reason, Crisp & Sweet wrappers and foam food trays are excluded (I'm not sure which Plastics these are). I would have thought that foam food trays were Polystyrene? Maybe they are trying to avoid materials with food residue on them?

    While the website is pretty clear, the signs at the centre are pretty vague. I went to the trouble of sorting my 1s & 2s including some plastic trays in with my bottles - however the guy on duty said I should put all trays in the "Plastic Packaging" bin, not with the bottles. It doesn't make any sense to me - I guess the guy on duty doesnt have a PhD in Polymer Chemistry - but the place is efficiently run and tidy and takes a better range of plastics than Ballyogan so I won't knock it!


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