Is the silage being returned to farmers abroad?

Rhys Essien

I saw a boat being loaded up the other day in Cork with what appeared to be bales of silage.Is this related to the bad weather shortage a while back when it had to be imported?.

Connemara Farmer

Any chance they might be bales of plastic for recycling?

franglan

That or RDF bales of our waste to be burnt in incinerators with spare capacity in Europe.

Rhys Essien

Not sure.They were the big round bales anyway.I was just wondering what the craic was.

Muckit

Think the two previous posters are bang on. It's either one or the other.

I think l seen it on telly. Most of incineration stuff in UK anyways goes to Norway. Cheaper than refuse companies paying landfill taxes. Mad

djmc

Muckit wrote: »

Think the two previous posters are bang on. It's either one or the other.

I think l seen it on telly. Most of incineration stuff in UK anyways goes to Norway. Cheaper than refuse companies paying landfill taxes. Mad

It really shows just how crazy the country has gone when our local dumps closed down because its cheaper to ship stuff to Norway and burn it there.

Hasmunch

It makes sense if its cheaper and hopefully more environmentally friendly than putting it into a landfill

Victor

What type of ship? Might it have been for live export?

djmc wrote: »

It really shows just how crazy the country has gone when our local dumps closed down because its cheaper to ship stuff to Norway and burn it there.

It just demonstrates how wasteful putting (most) stuff in landfill is.

Note that the stuff has to be burned properly, with proper treatment of the flue gases and ash. Improper / incomplete burning of rubbish is a major source of cancer-causing chemicals.

Count Mondego

We're a joke of a country. Export our rubbish for incineration but too good to have an incinerator here.

have2flushtwice

Count M, your right.
another joke is a project which is taking place in Birr Co offaly at the moment.

the main square is going through an overhaul, which involves reducing parking and replacing it with limestone slabs/pavement.
the area involved isn't that large. Despite the area being in the middle of a limestone rich area, the limestone is being imported from China as its cheaper!!

votuvant

have2flushtwice wrote: »

Count M, your right.
another joke is a project which is taking place in Birr Co offaly at the moment.

the main square is going through an overhaul, which involves reducing parking and replacing it with limestone slabs/pavement.
the area involved isn't that large. Despite the area being in the middle of a limestone rich area, the limestone is being imported from China as its cheaper!!

Funnily enough CoCo's sometimes stipulate that stone to be used on a building be "the natural stone of the area" or some bum fluff like that. How does the Chinese stone look? Does it have green, white and gold through it to make it Offaly stone

Connemara Farmer

have2flushtwice wrote: »

Count M, your right.
another joke is a project which is taking place in Birr Co offaly at the moment.

the main square is going through an overhaul, which involves reducing parking and replacing it with limestone slabs/pavement.
the area involved isn't that large. Despite the area being in the middle of a limestone rich area, the limestone is being imported from China as its cheaper!!

I know a quarry where they cut out the stone then send it to China for processing, then it gets sent back here again. That's the economics of it, something very wrong with the world all the same.

Don't mind that type of thing but it does concern me all the technology that gets sent to, shall we say, potentially unfriendly countries just because their labour force is cheaper.

MickeyShtyles

There's a Thorntons spot over beyond Rathoath near me and they have wrapped rounds stacked 4/5 high.
I'll take a pic of it the next time I'm over.

frazzledhome

Count Mondego wrote: »

We're a joke of a country. Export our rubbish for incineration but too good to have an incinerator here.

That's only the half of it. We import nuclear generated electricity yet we won't install a nuclear plant. We will however bollix around with turbines that only work some of the time.

Count Mondego

frazzledhome wrote: »

That's only the half of it. We import nuclear generated electricity yet we won't install a nuclear plant. We will however bollix around with turbines that only work some of the time.

I agree fully, but I've a brother working in energy regulation and he claims that nuclear is too expensive to build for a small country like Ireland. You'd need two plants for energy resilience and they'd cost over a billion each. Would have made sense in the 70s alright but the oppose anything brigade were out. One clown in Galway held up the mutton island sewage treatment plant for 20 years over fu&k all. When it finally got the go ahead the plant could only deal with 70% of the city's sewage.

Connemara Farmer

With the decision makers in this country they'd likely locate a nuke plant somewhere the prevailing winds would coat the entire island if it were ever to go pop.