What a load of rubbish... €25m facility to employ 85

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From Todays Indo

Prices being paid for recycled waste -- including paper, plastics, aluminium cans and cardboard -- have plunged but Dublin City Council is not making a loss on shipping it abroad for treatment, senior officials said yesterday.

The collapse in the market for recycled products has not resulted in the council having to hoard waste, instead it is sending it abroad for treatment.

The city council said that while the price being paid for recycled goods is very low, it is receiving up to €15 a tonne for paper, meaning it is not costing the authority to send waste for processing.

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But the price is just a fraction of what it was last year, when paper fetched up to $85 (€65) per tonne.

The city council officials were speaking at the opening of the new Ballymount Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) which will process up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year and separate the contents of the green bin before baling them for shipment abroad.

Environment Minister John Gormley said the facility was "enormously important" for the green economy.

A total of 85 people will be employed at the €25m recycling centre.

The facility will be operated by Greyhound Recycling and Recovery, which recently started collecting green waste from householders for the four Dublin local authorities.

Mr Gormley said: "Here we see the whole green economy in action and it is a modern facility and the sort of thing I've endorsed for some time.

"It is labour intensive, it does produce jobs and ensures we are protecting the environment."

The MRF will have the capacity of processing 100,000 tones of dry recyclable material per year and is one of the largest in the EU. It will process waste from 360,000 homes in the Dublin region over the next 20 years from the four local authorities -- Dublin City, Fingal, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown and South Dublin.

Mr Gormley added that a market would be created for recycled products in Ireland.

Still falls short though IMO. Only seperates and bales the materials to be shipped, we are still not processsing and recycling them here.

CJhaughey

To be fair Greyhound is one of better operators in the recycling business.
I was out at that facility a while back and it is pretty impressive, they are way ahead of Greenstar.

Wile E. Coyote

CJhaughey wrote: »

To be fair Greyhound is one of better operators in the recycling business.
I was out at that facility a while back and it is pretty impressive, they are way ahead of Greenstar.

Have you also been to the Greenstar Facilities to be able to compare them?

lostexpectation

yeah greens yeah privitisation

ART6

"Mr Gormley added that a market would be created for recycled products in Ireland."

How interesting. Is he going to create one? I don't plan to hold my breath.:)