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Recycling prices.

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  • 29-08-2020 3:01pm
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    malinheader
    Registered Users Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭


    Went to my local recycling centre today to leave in a double and single mattress. The cost they wanted was €50.00.
    Is this normal does anyone know around the rest of the county.


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    JoannieG
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    According to this leaflet, http://www.donegalcoco.ie/media/donegalcountyc/environment/pdfs/Donegal_Lft_2019_Web.pdf, it should have been €40. They have half-price weeks every so often. I got rid of 2 mattresses in Letterkenny the last time they did.


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    mcsean2163
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭mcsean2163


    Trying to understand. Would it not be cheaper to got to the dump?


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    muffler
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    mcsean2163 wrote: »
    Trying to understand. Would it not be cheaper to got to the dump?
    What dump?


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    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users Posts: 35,726 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Or you could get out your scissors and cut the fabric from the Mattress . Steel is then free, and fabric put in a bag.
    It's only expensive to dump mattresses because of the work involved to recycling them. Literally takes 10 mins to clean yourself.


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    malinheader
    Registered Users Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭malinheader


    10 minutes. Are you guessing the time or have you done this. Because the double mattress which I sent to recycle would definitely not have been stripped in 10 minutes and definitely a high degree of physical fitness would be needed to hump a double mattress about.


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    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users Posts: 35,726 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    More haste less speed, but yea I've done it, 10 minutes easy. No pulling and dragging, ripping or tearing, that would take more time. Just focus, and use scissors to cut where you need to.


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