Kilbarry recycle centre - new charges

dlnv27

I do my best to recycle as much as possible. Any large cardboard I get I keep and then about every 2 months I bring it down to the recycle centre. What I also brought down was my used cooking oil rather than throwing it in my black bin. Went down today and was told there is now a charge for cardboard and cooking oil. The cardboard charge was minimal but the oil is €1 per litre. I'm paying €1.30 for the oil in the supermarket and now have to pay another €1 to dispose of it. Is this any way to encourage people to recycle ?

Harry Palmr

No on the face of it - but there's another way to look at this - stop using cooking oil.

taytobreath

i tear up my cardboard boxes in to smaller pieces. Then recycle it in my green bin. I crush cans and plastic bottles.
makes More room in the bin

Spocker

Heres the full list of charges now: http://www.waterfordcouncil.ie/media/environment/Household%20Waste%20Disposal%20Charges%20Kilbarry%20CAS%20August%202019.pdf

Max Powers

taytobreath wrote: »

i tear up my cardboard boxes in to smaller pieces. Then recycle it in my green bin. I crush cans and plastic bottles.
makes More room in the bin

Recycle cans for free at bottle banks.

Johnboy1951

Someone I know was determined not to dump their old mattress at the side of the road somewhere, but equally determined not to pay 20 or 25 euro at the recycle centre.
Apparently they stripped the mattress one evening in the garage, took out the metal .... springs etc ..... and brought those to recycle centre for no charge.
The mattress covering and filling went by degrees in the appropriate bin for collection.

I guess it was worth the price of a few pints

Cabaal

Max Powers wrote: »

Recycle cans for free at bottle banks.

This.
I can never understand anyone putting cans and bottles in the recycle bin when you can get rid of them for free. Silly really.

spankmemunkey

Re Mattress

I did the same, Stanley knife, took the material off and got a bolt cutters out, took it apart bit by bit and put it in the right bins

sharingan

It takes a bit of work with a box cutter, but packing cardboard will compost to nothing in a maintained compost heap

greenspurs

Any big cardboard box that I get, I leave out in the rain , softens it up, you can then fold/squash it up and it will fit into your recycle bin.

I have an old mattress I was trying to get rid of (currently at the bottom of the garden)
and I emailed KK co. council about if there was going to be another "Mattress Amnesty" day - the guy came back and said , they don't plan on running it for a while , as the last time they did it, they got 622 in 4 hours !!!!

Wanderer78

greenspurs wrote: »

Any big cardboard box that I get, I leave out in the rain , softens it up, you can then fold/squash it up and it will fit into your recycle bin.

I have an old mattress I was trying to get rid of (currently at the bottom of the garden)
and I emailed KK co. council about if there was going to be another "Mattress Amnesty" day - the guy came back and said , they don't plan on running it for a while , as the last time they did it, they got 622 in 4 hours !!!!

we do the same, works a treat

was told before, mattresses are the bain of landfill operators, regularly clogging up drilling machine

Spocker

greenspurs wrote: »

Any big cardboard box that I get, I leave out in the rain , softens it up, you can then fold/squash it up and it will fit into your recycle bin.

Does that not ruin the rest of the contents of the bin though? Is it not all supposed to be dry?

I just cut any big boxes I get with a stanley knife

spankmemunkey

Spocker wrote: »

Does that not ruin the rest of the contents of the bin though? Is it not all supposed to be dry?

I just cut any big boxes I get with a stanley knife

I was leaving cardboard out in rain and then putting it in the brown compost bin, I was told that's perfectly ok cos its compostable

Cabaal

spankmemunkey wrote: »

I was leaving cardboard out in rain and then putting it in the brown compost bin, I was told that's perfectly ok cos its compostable

Composting it is one thing, putting a soaking wet cardboard box in a recycle bin is another.

Recycle stuff is supposed to be dry

taytobreath

Cabaal wrote: »

Composting it is one thing, putting a soaking wet cardboard box in a recycle bin is another.

Recycle stuff is supposed to be dry

he said the brown bin, not the recycling bin

sunnysoutheast

taytobreath wrote: »

he said the brown bin, not the recycling bin

The first poster to mention it said recycling bin so it's not really clear.

We've tried to compost cardboard in the past and a lot of the shinier stuff seems to have a plastic coating on it. The brown cardboard breaks down fine as long as you take any tape off.

As far as I know a lot of "recyclables" are incinerated these days anyway.