Pay by Weight deferred for a year but not shelved. Governments planned introduction of Pay by Weight on July 1st 2015 has for householders not currently on such a system, been put back for another year to be implemented on July 1st 2016. […]
July 1st Pay by Weight no excuses! Philip Nugent Last Monday January 12th Brown Bin Rescue met with Philip Nugent Principal Officer Waste Policy and Resource Efficiency at the Department of the Environment and Local Government (DELG), at the Customs House Dublin. Philip granted the meeting which I had called [...]
Will new legislation tackle evasion? The EPA has recently applauded Ireland for the amount of waste we have diverted away from Landfill, very commendable considering we are one of the highest producers of waste per capita in Europe. Min Alan Kelly Failure on the part of all previous Environmental Ministers to [...]
Pay by Weight! January 2015 will see the passing in the Dáil of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government's legislation to introduce Pay by Weight refuse collection for all households in Ireland (ROI) on July 1st with no exceptions. Minister Alan Kelly delivered this shock message through a statement read [...]
County councils all over Ireland in conjunction with Stop Food Waste have either carried out or are currently challenging a group of families in their county to accept the challenge to reduce their food waste production. Shopping with out a list so buying more than was intended, succumbing to the two for one offers, bad [...]
Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government Mr Alan Kelly spoke recently at the Environment Ireland Conference organised by the EPA and the Department. I was not there but on reading the report by Caroline O’Doherty of the Irish Examiner it would seem that this new minister feels it incumbent on him to rectify the [...]