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NEW EUROPEAN LEGISLATION, coming into effect in January 2024, will entitle every household to a brown bin collection service.
Many in rural areas currently are targeted with the introduction of a brown bin, for organic and food waste, collection service.
Currently 68% of households in Ireland can avail of the service from their waste collector.
Households across the country are being urged to contact their waste collector and request a brown bin service next year.
The European Union sought to “step up action” to prevent food loss and waste across its member states as its ‘Farm to Fork strategy’ highlighted the excessive amounts of food that is incorrectly disposed of.
The Enviornmental Protections Agency has previously made calls for a brown bin service to be rolled out to all customers, after it found improper recycling and waste disposal practices was rampant among households.
The European Commission proposed this year, as part of its Action Plan, legally binding targets to reduce food waste across the EU – making each household entitled to a proper waste collection service.
Pauline McDonogh, spokesperson for MyWaste.ie said: “Whether you live low in a valley, or high on a hill, the forthcoming household food and biowaste regulations means everyone, everywhere can now avail of a brown bin service.”
All types of food and organic waste are accepted in brown bins including raw and cooked meat and fish, plate scrapings, along with fruit and vegetable peelings, food-soiled paper napkins, paper towels, pizza boxes as well as grass clippings and light garden waste.
Des Crinion Chairperson of Irish Waste Management Association said: “With more and more households having access to the brown bin, it will allow more people to play their part to separate waste into the different streams and help Ireland achieve its national recycling target.”
“Recycling waste correctly, by putting it in the brown bin, is a vital step in our collective efforts to achieve targets and tackle climate change,” he added.
Where is the long-promised waiver scheme for the poorer and pensioners? The rip-off charges are leading to inappropriate disposal of waste on a very damaging scale. Money-making must be removed from the provision of this vital service. For-profit waste operators are the problem, not the solution
@Jim O’Sullivan: I totally agree. I’ve never seen so much fly tipping of waste;of all kinds. Once the leaves disappear the bags flung from cars, full of filthy nappies and the like, are revealed. And don’t get me started on the swinging dog shit bags on every branch!. There needs to be as many incentives as possible to get people to dispose of waste properly. Otherwise its just regarded as somebody else’s money making racket and such behaviour becomes a deliberate protest.
@Jim O’Sullivan: You should read the article before commenting. If you use your brown bin properly and regularly for all food and garden waste, then the number of times you need to leave out a black or general waste bin should massively reduce. I now only put put the black bin once every quarter. The brown bin is way cheaper to leave out as well. People are rightly penalised for not segregating their waste.
The ffg insatiable greed for power has insured that a country that should have world class institutions, hobbles along in a third world mess.
@Robert Halvey: It’s usually a self inflicted third world lifestyle people have imposed on themselves…..
At least the journal is allowing everyone to make rubbish comments
@Dave Hammond: That’s true and some comments are not even original they are recycled.
@Patrick Presley: we have all bin in this position before.
The bin collectors will up there prices anyway too compensate
Nice for everyone in the suburbs and rural areas. What about those in the city who rely on bin bags? Bags that get torn apart by seagulls and foxes looking for organic waste.
I wish someone would give the clowns I work with a crash course in recycling. Three bins in work, general waste, dry recycling and food yet the amount of lazy, can’t be bothered amount of people that put food into recycling, dry recyclables into general is just staggering, nothing more than pure unadulterated laziness.
@The Firestarter: It’s the number of people. The amount of sweets or gravel. Never amount of people. It’s the number of people. Just want to help you to be taken seriously.
@downburst1: Sweets are countable, so ‘number of sweets’ also.
@downburst1: Fair cop, my apologies for my brutal usage of the English language.
Restaurants used to be able to give their potato peels and other veg waste directly to pig farmers. Everyone started dying from contaminated pigs then so, after years of that practice, they had to put a stop to it. Now they have to buy it processed, stamped and packaged.
So yeah, really bad for the environment but Health and safety have been the making of this country. Keeps the pencil pushers so happy.
Living out in the countryside, people dumping into ditches has drastically increased with all these price hikes and charges…
It’s counterproductive wanting people to go green yet they’re charged to do so, resulting in people just dumping or not bothered to separate for recycling.
@Kieran Menon: typical ,someone else’s fault for fly tipping.we are a great bunch of lads in this country for blaming everyone but ourselves.
Being entitled to it and being able to afford is another matter?
May if they stopped putting use by dates on certain items like fruit and vegetables and let people use common sense..if it looks ok use it,if it smells bad don’t use it..there would be less waste..
I don’t understand how having up to 10 different trucks from 3 different companies up and down the estate every week is environmentally sound. I’m sure this happens everywhere. And competition, non existent. All the same price, raise prices within days of each other. So it’s not environmental, it’s not economical – what is the current system?
SF are going into it!
@Felix Price: so are you with a comment like that
@Felix Price: you’ll be going in so seeing as they’re living in your head ya daft Troll.
@Felix Price: can you explain what democracy and sf have to do with going into a brown bin. I can clearly see Fine Gael twelve years in government backed by Finna fail have put housing, health, disability rights, law and order all into the brown bin with their chaotic smelly stinky government decisions. Poor Sf keep asking them to stop.
@Liam Foy: him and his multiple accounts are always ranting about sf.
Time to leave the EU, it’s a sham
@Felix Price: ah come on Nigal, there are slow learners and then there are dimbats.
@Jim O’Sullivan: which one are you, Jim?
@Felix Price:
Haha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, let me catch my breath…
Hahahaha hahaha haha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,
I need a rest.
I don’t use the brown bin in the summer months, only collected fortnightly is a haven for flys and maggots, absolutely stinks
Throughout European history attempts to make waste disposal pay for itself have failed. They have then been abandoned and, in the interest of public hygiene, the waste was disposed of at public expense. Why would we be any different?
@Pato: Mightn’t that encourage people to produce unreasonably large amounts of waste? What’s ‘free’ isn’t generally appreciated.
Will need extra collection because that’s 3 bins and the trucks have 2 compartments. So 2 of the bin are going in the same compartment or there will have to be another collection .. or trucks with 3 compartments … ?!
@Dominic Leleu:
It’s 3 different trucks where I live,
Black bin truck every week…
Green bin truck every second week…
Brown bin truck every other second week.
@KTH: The colours need to be standardised! We have 2 bins. Recycling is Red. Rubbish is Black (We have our own compost bin and take glass to the local recycling depot).
I’m confused. The EU claims it is to reduce food waste. As if someone will go through the brown bin and put back the products on the market or what? Just be honest and admit is to ensure the company owned by a relative of a politician can scam the people more…
@Brendan O’brien. Even if people generate a lot of waste it is cheaper to dispose of this way than tidying up fly tipping.
Be nicer if Friends of Farage enemies of the government ,supporters of fascism ,Admirers of sinn fein, begrudgers of everyone,and other motley crews could desist from predictable outbursts .And bin them
Be nice if some people even had a bin collection service.
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