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Students across the country challenged to become battery recycling champions

Schools and students across Ireland have been challenged to become battery recycling champions as part of a nationwide initiative, which in turn will help children with life-limiting illnesses. Participating schools can also win sports equipment ...

25 Sept 2022 at 16:13

National News

National Food Waste Recycling Week launched

National Food Waste Recycling Week which runs from the May 30 until June 6, 2022, is a new national campaign from MyWaste.ie to encourage people to recycle their food waste. A previous study by the Environmental Protection Agency found that ...

30 May 2022 at 17:07

Your Community

649 tonnes of electrical waste collected in Laois as families urged to end e-hording

Families in Laois are being challenged to find and recycle five end-of-life electrical items in a bid to improve our recycling performance, after consumption soared in the last year. The country’s largest e-waste recycling scheme, WEEE ...

07 Oct 2021 at 11:53

Business

Green light for huge 24/7 1 billion bottle recycling plant in Laois

A plastics recycling firm has got the green light to build the first phase of a €20 million project that it says will see up to 1 billion bottles recycled in Laois annually at the first so-called bottle-to-bottle plant in Ireland. ...

04 Aug 2021 at 21:53

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Laois students reach semi-finals of Young Environmentalist Awards

Young people from Laois were among teams from schools and youth groups that took part in the regional semi-finals of the Young Environmentalist Awards (YEA). Those shortlisted included a team from Mountmellick Community School, ...

05 Apr 2024 at 20:23

National News

Only four in ten electronic and electric gifts recycled in Ireland

Just four in ten of the most popular electronic and electrical gifts sold in Ireland have been recycled in the past three years, new data has indicated. Since 2020, 40% of end-of-life consumer electricals such as hair ...

27 Nov 2023 at 11:00

Local News

Laois school hosts unusual fundraiser with car theme

Clothes collections, cake sales, table quizzes, tractor runs are often the most common ways parents run to help pay the bills incurred by the schools their children attend. A Laois school has come up with a novel way ...

11 Nov 2023 at 18:52

National News

Irish submarine inventor honoured with sculpture made from recycled plane parts

A descendant of the Irish-born inventor of the modern-day submarine has created a sculpture in his honour, made from recycled airliner parts. John Phillip Holland, who grew up in Co Clare before emigrating to the ...

05 Nov 2023 at 12:04

National News

Concern raised over unsafe dumping of electrical items

One in eight people in Ireland continues to dump small electrical items in household bins, research shows. The rate for the improper disposal of the products, which has serious environmental and public health ...

28 Apr 2024 at 10:58

National News

Only a third of Irish people understand the recycling process, according to Repak survey

Ireland's leading recycling company have unveiled research for Earth Day (April 22nd), revealing that just over a third of Irish residents 'confidently understand' the recycling process. The survey of 1000 ...

22 Apr 2024 at 12:17

National News

Irish celebrity says latest recycling scheme is 'just another tax' as return facilities littered

The public are reacting to the condition of the latest reverse vending machines at retailers across the country which facilitate the new Deposit Return Scheme. Under a post to X by Senator Barry Ward, ...

13 Feb 2024 at 13:01

National News

Hospitality industry demands unified deposit return scheme across UK and Ireland

Hospitality trade bodies from across the UK and Ireland have called on governments to work together on the creation of a unified deposit return scheme. The United Kingdom and Ireland Licensed Trade ...

11 Oct 2023 at 18:43

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