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A SYSTEM FOR identifying households that are mixing in general waste with recycling waste is to be trialled soon in Dublin.
Panda Waste Management said that it would be trialling the new system on 12,000 households in Fingal in Dublin.
The trial is in order to combat large amounts of general black bin waste – including food waste, nappies, and textiles – from being dumped into green bins (for which there is no charge).
As a result of this, Panda Waste Management said that 40% of recycling is contaminated in Dublin.
Green bins currently have no charge attached to them, while black bins cost money.
The new system will involve having a camera mounted inside a waste lorry. The camera is able to identify what number house the bin corresponds to.
If any prohibited waste is contained in the bin, the camera will be able to identify it.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Drivetime this evening, Des Crinion said that the cameras were being installed as what was being put in bins was “unbelievable”.
“It’s supposed to be material that we can sort out and use as raw material to go back into the manufacturing process,” said Crinion.
But we see everything from nappies, food waste, and also textiles which we can’t recycle in this manner.
Crinion said that he believed people were using the green bins to hide waste as it was free to use.
He said that some sort of fine could be introduced in the future for households that are shown to repeatedly offend.
The Jewish Council feel we are “oversimplifying” the issue?
The worst genocide in modern times is oversimplified?
israel is currently slaughtering men, women and children in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. They are stealing land all around them. It’s as simple as that. Then they play the victim, leaving the embassy while playing the “antisemitism” card.
@James Groden: As a Putin fan, It’s not hard to see why you’d gloss over 500,000 killed by Putin, Assad, Hezbollah in Syria. Would you class this as a genocide? Or maybe Russia killing up to 2,000,000 Afghanis? Was that a genocide? Why hasn’t anyone called Yemen, with 400,000 dead, a genocide? Very strange, but it’s clear why Israel is being targeted.
@honey badger: When anyone mentions any Yeman, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya you shout whataboutry and ignore what they say. Now you’re asking why they are not mentioned. Total hypocrite
Israel feel they have carte blanche to do what they like because of the strong Jewish lobby in the states and Uk and with ww2 and their own persecution. The victims have become the perpetrators. Sickening that they can get away anything they are doing. This is nothing to do with religion but Israel pull the “jew card” saying that anyone who disagrees is antisemetic. Bullcrap and something big needs to be done about this soon.
@Ciaran: You and the rest are being played by Hamas. War is such a dirty cruel thing. All killing and plans to exterminate must end but getting int the minds of muslim Hamas caliphateists and fight to survive fearful Israelis is hard to see happening.
@Basildon Joe: We’ll see how the latest CIA backed terrorists group get on in Syria!
@Basildon Joe: I’m not happy with the closure of the embassy , that’s Israel throwing toys out of pram. Israel have grabbed the land of Palestine for years. Look at a map from 1960 to now. This is well before the October 7th attacks. Israel are greedy land grabbers who are now grabbing some of Syria with the same with lebanon. But even saying hamas hade a terrorist act on Israel in October 7th, how many women and children have been killed by Israel since ? Bombing hospitals and schools and refugee camps. Is that justified? Stopping aid getting to hungry and sick civilians. Netanyahu has an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes. You really think he is innocent ? More fool you. Netanyahu needs to be terminated. Dirt of the earth
@Ciaran: Israël surrendered Gaza completely in 2005. After a peace agreement with the Palestine authority.
War is an experience outside the sphere of safe Irish politicians and public. Hamas is an experienced terror army that uses terror warfare strategies incomprehensible to Irish. While most male Hamas fighters are active elsewhere they pack their military offices with expendable sacrificial(martyr) women and female children as human shields. This tactic to protect the Hamas commanders is clearly working on the gullible safe western political mouths.
@thomas molloy: still doesn’t change the fact 16+k kids were killed by Israel.
Israel just secured future extremists.
@Kieran Menon: That’s the plan. Hate begets Hate, Slaughter begets Slaughter. That’s what 7th October was about.
@Kieran Menon: Hamas started the war on October last year. Yes Israël react over the top but fact is fact.
Israël handed back Gaza in 2005. Removed all Israeli out of Gaza. A lot by force. There where no settlements in Gaza which was occupied only by Palestine. Still Hamas killed 1200 innocent civilian and took 200 hostage. Yes they started but the Irish government mention that every time only very briefly.
@Kieran Menon: So you have noticed that Hamas commanders and control centers locate in schools and surround themselves with women and girls. Why are the government not calling this out ?
@thomas molloy: You know damn well. Hamas was funded by Netanyahu to divide the Palestinians. You talk about Israel handing back Gaza. How do you think they got possession of it in the first place? Zionism is a toxic colonial venture born at the height of European colonial violence in the 19th century. It is a toxic offshoot of pan-German, racist, nationalism in Vienna in the 1890′s.
@Kieran Menon: Civilian death counts in the Israel-Hamas war have been inflated and distorted to portray Israel as deliberately targeting innocent civilians, a new study found.
The report from the UK-based Henry Jackson Society found that news outlets failed to distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties and relied on manipulated statistics from the Hamas-run Health Ministry when reporting on the war.
Gaza officials claim more than 44,700 people have been killed following the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, but does not acknowledge that upwards of 17,000 were Hamas terrorists — a fact the media often omits, the study found, citing Israeli and US military and intelligence reports for its data.
@Ulick: read the full report at HenryJacksonSociety.org
Is there any good news
@Shanie: Dancing with the Stars is back soon!
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