Recycling in Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown

journeyman

Glad to see that pay by weight for refuse collection has arrived in Dun
Laoghaire. It's the only way that people and companies will really take
recycling seriously.

However, why aren't Dun Laoghaire residents given brown bins, like in Galway
(see http://www.galwaycity.ie/content/departments/environment/downloads/recycle_galwayguide.pdf ), for organic waste, which is collected for composting ?
This would reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.

Also, does anyone know if supermarkets are obliged to accept excess packaging
if it is left with them at time of purchase ? Not everyone has loads of
space to store the various types of excess packaging separately prior to
collection (or, in some cases, transport by the householder) for recycling.


journeyman

MrPudding

Does anyone know anywhere locally, Dun Laoghaire, to get a wormery? I suppose that will be the best option given the lack of a brown bin.

MrP

PeadarofAodh

I have an issue with the taxing of bins. I'm part of a family of 8 living in the dunlaoighre/rathdown council area. They're taxing the weight of bins without taking into account the amount of members of a house which in effect is punishing households who have above-average numbers of children. Does anyone else find this fact slightly strange?

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.repak.ie/

many retailers belong to this , and they may have up a notice about it
but I think they pay repak as they produce the goods and thus don't have to accept stuff from consumers again

journeyman

Thanks for the replies, everyone.

RE: Wormery. Great for houses with gardens, and everyone with a garden should go out and get one (and save themselves money, as it will reduce the weight of their waste bin). However, don't forget that many people who have moved to DL/Rathdown more recently don't have gardens. This is likely to be increasingly the case in the future, as Dublin housing densities move closer to those in other European cities (where apartment living is the norm). Thus, we should get brown bins for organic waste - we even have a precedent for this in Ireland, as they already have them in Galway.

RE: Excess packaging. Surely it would be better if the consumer could leave the excess packaging at the supermarkets at time of purchase. This saves the overhead of transporting the excess packaging home, temporarily storing it prior to recycling / disposing (often in small apartments without much storage space), and then placing it in the green (or waste) bin, or, in some cases transporting it (again) to a recycling centre. Also, if supermarkets have the logistical issue of handling the excess packaging waste from customers, they are much more likely to put pressure on the producers not to use excess packaging in the first place.

Thoughts ?

journeyman

vector

journeyman wrote:

...RE: Excess packaging. Surely it would be better if the consumer could leave the excess packaging at the supermarkets at time of purchase...

Yes, I hate excess packaging.

Take arm and hammer toothpaste as an example.

It comes in a tube (that is necessary of course)
But then outside the tube is a cardboard box (I don't want or need that)
but it must be there for a reason (easier to stack on the shops shelves)
so the shop should keep it