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Still feels strange recycling non rigid plastic

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    #32
    embraer170
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    Waste management should be a state/local authority run activity (or tendered to a private company by region with regulated pricing and performance goals) rather than the free for all you see in Ireland today.



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    stopthevoting
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118483464#Comment_118483464

    Maybe so, but I am not sure what you mean by that national co-ordination. If it was to involve official nationwide bin colours for each type of waste or recycling, then I would not agree with that. Replacement of bins just because of the colour would cause enormous waste and expense. They last for decades and should be used as long as possible. Maybe it could be introduced for new customers though, but it should not be retrospective.



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    gozunda
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118483916#Comment_118483916

    Old unused wheelie bins make for great worm based decomposters - you just need to add drainage holes in the base.



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    Ger Roe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,112 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118483916#Comment_118483916

    Don't get too hung up on the bin colour aspect. It was an example I used to show how uncoordinated and unplanned the whole process is. There are other bigger issues, the different colour designation of bins and the communication problems that it causes is just one simple example of the mess that our re-cycle process is. If it was a national policy, we would all be simply using the same colour bin for each designation. We rushed into unleashing commercial potential on the recycle aspect, without planning - and it evolved into the shambles we have today.

    We have a whole 'industry' of commercial operators, local councils, retail PR agencies, government departments and NGO companies, all with little bits of vested interests in something that would be much simpler, more accountable and more effective to manage on a central national basis. In fact, the declarations that we are in a climate emergency and the role the recycling can play in it, would suggest that it needs to be looked at as a national emergency measure, and not a badly fragmented industry of commercial opportunity where the facilities that you have available to you and their cost, are a postcode lottery, based on commerical viability.



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