Swedes to recycle the cycle…the Swedish government is proposing to introduce tax breaks on repairs of everything from bicycles to washing machines. It is encouraging people not to throw out old or broken items, but rather repair them and not buy new ones.The initiative would slash the VAT rate on repairs to bicycles, clothes and […]
As Halloween creeps up on us again, households are stocking up on pumpkins, nuts, apples, and other goulish delights. Spare a thought however for the poor pumpkin of which 25{b050ebef00e2b6e935b95b021e9f55f4ab20ffeed47f29e2aa25a2081fec5bc8} is discraded into the waste bin (landfill) by households. In the UK this equates to 18,000 tonnes of needless waste. And UK’ers could use this […]
Recent statistics from Europe show that Ireland is the 7th largest producer per capita of municipal waste and has a lot of work to do to catch up with its EU counterparts! Municipal waste is collected by or on behalf of municipal authorities and disposed of through waste management systems. It consists mainly of waste […]
In their recent report on Composting and Anaerobic Digestion in Ireland, the EPA stated that 300 thousand tonnes of food and biowaste was treated by Composting and AD Plants in Ireland in 2015. Of this 65{b050ebef00e2b6e935b95b021e9f55f4ab20ffeed47f29e2aa25a2081fec5bc8} (195 ktonnes) was municipal waste, that is canteen waste, kitchen waste and garden waste. The EPA elaborated further by […]
On the last day of June 2016, the eve of the introduction of Pay By Weight, Minister Coveney signed into law Statutory Instrument 346 which “removed the requirement on the collector of household waste to charge on a Pay by Weight per kilogramme basis” . He replaced it with a system of soft touch regulation […]
Following the recent Pay By Weight fiasco here in Ireland, it might be worthwhile for the powers that be to look at the city of Parma in Italy, where they successfully have implemented Pay By Weight, or as the Italians would say “Paga Quanto Butti” (Pay As You Throw). Parma has a population of approximately […]
The recent announcement by the Minister Coveney, on the postponement or perhaps potential scrapping of Pay by Weight bin charges must be viewed with some scepticism. In his announcement, set out below, the Minister indicated that an interim dual billing system will operate during which time customers will be able to see the quantities of […]
The decision to suspend the introduction of Pay by Weight by Minister Coveney must be perplexing to anyone familiar with waste management as it endorses the activity of those who do not segregate their waste, by mixing recyclables, food waste and residual waste in one black bag. Not only is this bag of contaminated waste […]
The object of Pay by Weight was and is to encourage people to think about the waste they create and introduces in practical terms the “Polluter Pays Principle”, that is if you create waste you pay for disposing of it. The majority of domestic waste that people produce is reusable and can be recycled or […]
With the introduction of Pay by Weight charges in three weeks time, Waste Service Providers have begun to outline the charge that they will levy when Pay by Weight comes into effect on July 1st. The charging mechanisms vary with some companies not currently being in a position to provide their charges. Hopefully by the […]