# waste - Wednesday 3 September, 2014
# Halt
# Halt
The talks talks have adjourned and there is no date set for them to resume.
# waste - Thursday 14 August, 2014
# Battle
# Battle
Joan Collins and two Dublin councillors have been ordered to stop the blockade – but workers have vowed to continue to picket.
# waste - Saturday 12 July, 2014
# Locked Out
# Locked Out
The lockout has been ongoing for a number of weeks and both sides say they are willing to enter dialogue.
# waste - Tuesday 8 July, 2014
# Waste
# Waste
Richard Bruton says the future of the industry must be considered.
# Mudslinging
# Mudslinging
Not true says SIPTU, who also say the dispute is a lock out.
# waste - Thursday 3 July, 2014
# Rubbish
# Rubbish
A SIPTU shop steward was hit by a van yesterday…
# waste - Friday 27 June, 2014
# Industrial Action
# Industrial Action
The strike, which began at 6am, centres on a proposed pay cut and cuts to allowances.
# waste - Thursday 26 June, 2014
# Hazardous Waste
# Hazardous Waste
The EPA wants a take-back scheme to be introduced so people dispose of expired medicines properly.
# waste - Monday 2 June, 2014
# Funding
# Funding
A new website gives a breakdown of how much each local authority in Ireland gets and where the money goes.
# waste - Wednesday 16 April, 2014
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
Cutting costly emissions from thousands of public buildings would help the environment and save Ireland €200m a year – without requiring a single job loss.
# waste - Sunday 13 April, 2014
# Food Waste
# Food Waste
A House of Lords Committee in the UK has blamed supermarkets for adding to high levels of food waste with these offers but experts in Ireland said everyone has their part to play in reducing this.
# waste - Wednesday 2 April, 2014
# What A Waste
# What A Waste
The EPA says that most failures are down to poor maintenance.
# waste - Friday 28 March, 2014
# Foodcloud
# Foodcloud
1.3bn tonnes, in fact.
# waste - Wednesday 19 March, 2014
# On Target
# On Target
The EPA warns that we’re still at risk of not meeting the 2016 target for diverting waste from landfills.
# waste - Wednesday 12 March, 2014
# Feed The 5000
# Feed The 5000
The tasty vegetarian curry will be made with nutritious vegetables that would otherwise go to waste.
# waste - Thursday 6 March, 2014
# Hazard
# Hazard
Clare County Council has started an investigation to find out who has been depositing asbestos at nine places around the county.
# waste - Tuesday 14 January, 2014
# Dropped
# Dropped
The project has already cost in the region of €100 million.
# waste - Monday 23 December, 2013
# Recycle
# Recycle
Repak expects to recycle 44,000 tonnes of packaging waste over the Christmas period.
# waste - Saturday 21 December, 2013
# Poolbeg
# Poolbeg
The costs of the proposed Poolbeg incinerator are now approaching €100 million – but construction is still yet to begin.
# waste - Thursday 28 November, 2013
# Hazardous Waste
# Hazardous Waste
The EPA has sought to remind people to take part in the public consultation on a new waste management plan before the deadline next month.
# waste - Thursday 10 October, 2013
# Dublin
# Dublin
Certain Dublin City Council staff can now question residents, as part of their crackdown on illegal rubbish dumping.
# waste - Sunday 15 September, 2013
# Poolbeg
# Poolbeg
The stalled Poolbeg incinerator project has cost over €90 million over more than ten years – even though construction has yet to start on it…
# waste - Saturday 7 September, 2013
# Clean Up
# Clean Up
How the Icon Factory is battling waste. Also – can Temple Bar’s lanes be reclaimed? A new project aims to do just that.
# waste - Tuesday 3 September, 2013
# Waste
# Waste
Louth County Council has begun the tendering process for the clean-up of the site, which was discovered two years ago.
# waste - Friday 23 August, 2013
# Dublin
# Dublin
Staff unloading a waste truck found the body of the man this morning.
# waste - Saturday 3 August, 2013
# Waste Not
# Waste Not
There is still no date for when building will start on the Poolbeg incinerator, which has been in the works for over a decade.
# waste - Wednesday 10 July, 2013
# Japan
# Japan
The leak was long suspected by experts, but denied by the plant’s operator.
# waste - Friday 5 July, 2013
# Rubbish
# Rubbish
The government is increasing the levy on how much waste collection companies pay to dump landfill – which means a price increase for Greyhound customers.
# waste - Monday 1 July, 2013
# Waste Not
# Waste Not
Rubbish can’t be put out until after 6pm on the day before it is collected in Dublin – and waste trucks can only operate from 6am to 9pm in residential areas.
# waste - Sunday 30 June, 2013
# Waste
# Waste
The rubbish collection company is ‘saving Dublin City Council €12m a year’, it said.
# waste - Friday 21 June, 2013
# Poo Watch
From The Daily Edge
# Poo Watch
You’ll be scared into pooper scooper yes forever.
# waste - Wednesday 5 June, 2013
# Poo Watch
From The Daily Edge
# Poo Watch
Talk about a “special delivery”.
# waste - Saturday 20 April, 2013
# Green Flag
# Green Flag
The college was the first university in the world to be awarded the international Green Flag for environmental friendliness in 2010.
# waste - Sunday 14 April, 2013
# Dirty Dublin
# Dirty Dublin
The Dublin Litter Blog showcases the overstuffed bags, rubbish and random items illegally dumped on the capital’s streets.
# Whiskey
# Whiskey
The scientists in Edinburgh use a 100-year-old scientific process to produce biobutanol and adapted it for whiskey.
# waste - Friday 12 April, 2013
# Illegal Dumping
# Illegal Dumping
An Taisce has heavily criticised plans to prevent illegal dumping by stopping street cleaning altogether in parts of the north inner city.
# waste - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
# Maldives
# Maldives
Thilafushi, an artificial island in the middle of the Maldives archipelago, is the dumping ground for Malé and luxury hotels.
# waste - Saturday 19 January, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
The bureaucracy, waste and profligacy of the EU repulses many people, writes Aaron McKenna – so is it any surprise the UK might want to exit?
# waste - Saturday 22 December, 2012
# Recycling
# Recycling
Repak said Irish households will go through 5 million boxes of chocolates and 50 million bottles of beer this festive season.
