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# Waste Away

Last year

2022

The Explainer x Noteworthy: What happens to your soft plastic recycling?

Alice Chambers of Noteworthy and Mindy O’Brien of environmental charity VOICE tell Susan Daly about Ireland’s recycling system.

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Updated

Dec 28th 2022, 9:30 AM

Soft plastic is being collected but almost all burned in Irish kilns or recycled abroad

A report by

Alice Chambers

Guidelines changed in 2021 to allow soft plastic in our recycling bins – Noteworthy investigates what happens to it.

An estimated 9,000 tonnes of additional soft plastic recycled in 2022

Almost all Irish household soft plastic that does get recycled is shipped abroad

EPA: Ireland is ‘in danger’ of missing 2025 plastic packaging recycling targets

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Dec 27th 2022, 12:05 AM