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No plans for Greystones recycling center

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  • #2
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,330 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    how profitable these waste streams are is debatable.
    If you have a bin service they will take aluminium, paper, cardboard and hard plastic in the green bin.
    Tesco Greystones are taking soft plastics as a trial at the moment.


  • #3
    Cerco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,063 ✭✭✭Cerco


    loyatemu wrote: »
    Tesco Greystones are taking soft plastics as a trial at the moment.

    How do you avail of this? Is it a case of bringing the soft plastic to the shop?


  • #4
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,330 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Cerco wrote: »
    How do you avail of this? Is it a case of bringing the soft plastic to the shop?

    yep, they have a big bin beside the self-scan area. supposedly they are recycling it into signs etc for the stores. I thought soft plastics were very difficult to recycle but they seem to have some use for them.


  • #5
    michael345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭michael345


    loyatemu wrote: »
    how profitable these waste streams are is debatable.
    If you have a bin service they will take aluminium, paper, cardboard and hard plastic in the green bin.
    Tesco Greystones are taking soft plastics as a trial at the moment.

    I didn't say those companies are profitable - just the products itself potentially - and you pay twice - once you buy the product - and second - when you pay for the private waste company to take it from your doorstep - and as far as my research goes - 80% is being burned or berried as China withdraw from collection of plastic waste since 2018 or so.


  • #6
    michael345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭michael345


    an update - they actually burning plastics in a center of Dublin - so you pay thrice - for the energy it produces - but the health price can be way bigger on a bigger picture



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  • #7
    2011
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,641 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117693174#Comment_117693174

    Do you mean that instead of burying waste plastic in a hole in the ground it is used to produce electricity in a state of the art facility in Poolbeg that is independently monitored for emissions by the EPA ? This facility can also produce district heating.

    Sounds like a good plan to me.



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