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What can be recycled? Government publishes first national list to help you out

The list includes plastic bottles and egg cartons – and excludes coffee cups and tissues.

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THERE’S ALWAYS AT least one paper or plastic item that you can’t remember if you can recycle or not.

This makes things tricky on two levels – on an individual level, it’s confusing for people who want to reduce their household waste, and on a macro level, it means that recyclable items are being thrown in as waste when Ireland is trying to reduce its emissions.

So the government has decided to help people out by compiling a definitive list of recyclable items. This is the first single national standard list of items that you can recycle.

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Rigid Plastics

  • Plastic drink bottles
  • Plastic cleaning bottles
  • Butter, yoghurt and salad tubs
  • Fruit and veg trays
  • Plastic milk cartons
  • Soap or shampoo bottles

Tins & Cans

  • Soup cans
  • Pet food cans
  • Drink cans
  • Food cans

Paper and cardboard

  • Letters and brochures
  • Cardboard boxes
  • Egg boxes
  • Toilet & kitchen roll
  • Newspapers
  • Tetra pak juice or milk cartons

You can view the full list here.

The site also has a Q&A section about why some items aren’t on the recyclable list:

Coffee cups: A disposable coffee cup is made from paper but has a plastic lining that is difficult to remove, so coffee cups must go in your black bin.
Paper towels/napkins: These items are usually made from recycled paper that can only be recycled a limited number of times. You can put them in your compost bin.
Glass: Glass is 100% recyclable, however, glass does not go in the recycle bin. Glass should be placed in glass/bottle banks.

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten said that he hoped the list would remove the confusion and improve “the quality of the material that goes in the recycle bin”.

“This will help to ensure that these items are actually recycled, as opposed to being contaminated accidentally by householders and sent to landfill.

The list of suitable material is now simply paper, cardboard, rigid plastics, tins and cans.

Read: Wrapping waste used in online deliveries has increased by 28% – report

Read: The Green Party wants to give you 10c back for each plastic bottle and can you recycle

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    @Jen Mc: Oz was a terrible candidate but it was known long before the election that Fetterman was have serious cognitive isues. The man has trouble deciphering what people say in a normal one on one conversation, he never had any hope of winging it as a Senator.
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    @Will: all that tells me is that people understandably despised Dr. Oz enough to vote for Fetterman and that the Dems didn’t have anyone more fit for purpose to put forward. Or were they looking for the sympathy vote? Either way, I’d rather Fetterman than Oz.

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    Oz was a respected cardiologist. Fetterman can’t string two sentences together. Should’ve been a no brainer.

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    @Samantha Samantha: You must have missed the bit where Oz defrauded his TV audience by selling and making millions out of meds that didn’t work or Oprah’s criticism of him. Did you read the bit on Fetterman’s success in fighting crime and the fact that he has his own opinions. As for the cardiology bit, he certainly didn’t show John Fetterman much sympathy after his stroke, which doesn’t reflect well on him.

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