Why vote for Brustibin? If the attached views of the Aran Islands and Tralee Bay are not enough to convince you to segregate your household waste using Brustibin, then here are a few more reasons that you might want to consider.. Brustibin helps you control your waste costs helps you to reduce your food waste […]
Minimum charges per kilo per waste type have been announced by the Department of Environment, as they begin their campaign to educate the public on waste segregation, the brown bin and pay by weight, prior to July 1st, 2016. From that date household refuse charges will be levied on a weight per kilo basis. The […]
The EPA estimate that 720,000 tonnes of household residual waste(black sacks) are collected by Waste Service Providers each year …that is 66{b050ebef00e2b6e935b95b021e9f55f4ab20ffeed47f29e2aa25a2081fec5bc8} of all the household waste they collect! Residual waste and its treatment is therefore a big industry, and 57{b050ebef00e2b6e935b95b021e9f55f4ab20ffeed47f29e2aa25a2081fec5bc8} of this residual waste is exported for treatment. But what is in this residual […]
The newly formed WERLA’s (Waste Enforcement Regional Lead Authorities) have issued documentation to help Householders with the coming into force of Pay By Weight by July 2016. From July all Waste Collectors will be charging Householders on a Pay By Weight basis for their waste collection […]
In his opening address to the recent Waste Management Conference, Environment Minister, Alan Kelly, focused on the Enforcement of the new Waste Regulations 2015 and the Circular Economy, whereby resources are reused and recycled . The Minister estimated that the Circular Economy would “create an upper end estimate for job creation through the complete processing […]
Around one third of the food produced globally is lost or wasted. Food waste is a loss of other resources such as land, water, energy and labour, and in Europe it is estimated that households discard 25{b050ebef00e2b6e935b95b021e9f55f4ab20ffeed47f29e2aa25a2081fec5bc8} (by weight) of the food they purchase. They are however not the only culprits, as large quantities of […]
On a recent visit to Drogheda, many local residents informed me that they did not have a Brown Bin for their food waste! They also said that they had not been supplied with a Brown Bin by their local waste service provider, nor were they being told that they could face fines if they disposed […]
Householders are being asked, and required by law to segregate their waste and while the author has found that the vast majority of householders are complying, residents of MUD’s and accomodation blocks generally do not, as can be evidenced by the amount of black sacks and lack of brown bins in the waste storage areas […]
Tesco Ireland is now stocking Brustibin, the only 100{b050ebef00e2b6e935b95b021e9f55f4ab20ffeed47f29e2aa25a2081fec5bc8} Irish household recycling bin, in its Tesco Extra stores in Malahide, Balbriggan, Finglas, Naas, Maynooth, Portlaoise, Drogheda and Wexford. This will be welcome news to all householders in these areas who must segregate their brown waste (food waste) from landfill waste (grey/black waste) and prepare for […]