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WHO RECYCLES MORE – northsiders or southsiders?
This is a question that Greyhound has set out to answer with its latest survey, which shows that Dublin 4 residents are the worst when it comes to recycling in the capital.
The waste management company studied recycling rates in nine different Dublin postcodes, which it says reveals that the northside of the city has a better recycling track record.
Green bins
The three best areas for both green and brown bin usage were all on the northside.
The worst performing area for green bin recycling was Dublin 4, at 23.7 per cent, against an average of 27.0 per cent across the nine areas surveyed.
When it came to brown bin recycling, the worst performing area was Dublin 8 at 13.3 per cent – the average was 18.0 per cent.
While green bins are used to collect materials like paper, cans and plastics for recycling, brown bins are for bio-waste like food and grass cuttings.
Greyhound Chief Executive Michael Buckley said that it is “extremely interesting to see the differences in the recycling rates right across Dublin”.
Buckley described it as “imperative that customers alter their recycling behaviour in order that Ireland meets its obligations under the EU Waste Framework Directive”.
How they did it
Greyhound’s study is based on measuring the weight of waste collected from bins across the Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council areas which it services.
It then calculated the percentage of total weight accounted for by green and brown waste.
Buckley said that Greyhound is proud of the fact that in excess of 90 per cent of the waste it collects is recycled or recovered.
He pointed out that customers can help by trying to sort their rubbish into the correct bin. “This in turn, will help maximise the amount of material that can be recycled and recovered,” he explained.
Greyhound is the largest household waste collector in Ireland.
The study will be repeated in three months – so there’s time to get recycling and do your local area (as well as the environment) a favour.
What are your recycling tips? Tell us in the comments.
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Apparently this guy had been watched 24/7 since 2016. They spent all this time, money and resources on a guy who wasn’t even a New Zealander and this still happens. Why wasn’t he just deported?
@Colleen: Because you can’t arrest people for crimes they are yet to commit.
@Niamh Hayes: you can if you can prove conspiracy
@Michael Burke: They obviously couldn’t prove conspiracy then.
@Colleen: he would face “torture and violence” if he was deported, his lawyers said
@Niamh Hayes: yes you can.. I saw it on a documentary called “minority report”
@Niamh Hayes: look up the difference between deported and arrested.
@Colleen: NZ has a varefullg-crafted superiority complex to consider.
@Niamh Hayes:
You’re right but he was arrested previously for planning an attack but it was ruled by a judge that planning an attack is not illegal. Maybe it should be.
@Paul O Connor: that’s outrageous if true. Planning mass murder isn’t a crime?
@Niamh Hayes: crazy law
If he was known to be a violent extremist since 2016 why wasn’t he deported.
@Philip Kedney: because they are too soft. Now they are paying the price.
@Philip Kedney: because of barbaric principles like “innocent until proven guilty”?
Its only a matter of time before something like this happens in Dublin, plenty of extremists here under investigation; Sure didn’t one of the attackers in England have an Irish ID card a few years back and a Dublin address
@David Lee: got married in Ireland ya. Was staying out in Santry for a bit too, you are correct. Ireland, albeit an enemy to the Islamic State, is less likely to be attacked due to our strategic benefit to IS. Our security is incredibly lax and we share an unmanned border with the UK who would be a much bigger target in their eyes. They use Ireland as a gateway and therefore would not like to draw attention or give cause for increased security and scrutiny to their activities in Ireland by launching an attack here. Of course that is a large co-ordinated attack. We would very much be at risk from the lone wolf nut-jobs alright who are inspired by IS twisted ideology.
in ireland he would have got a good slap on the hand and a strongly worded letter
Was wondering how far down the page we’d make it before the obligatory inane ‘comparison’ comment.
Terrible thing to happen. Please God, all the victims will make a full recovery.
Great to see we have so many security and anti-terrorism experts, all putting their skills to their best use writing comments on thejournal.ie.
So they lied when they originally said it was “random”? Or are they just that incompetent?
@Thomas Smyth: It’s sounding as if he was copying IS attacks but not in a cell of terrorists conspiring to plan an attack? It’s that odd difference again between a gang with a religious or political motive and a wanna be serial killer, I suppose.
Unclear at this point whether or not suspect was NZ citizen / if he was might help explain why he wasn’t deported.
What was a Sri Lankan doing in NZ for 10 years? Was he legally resident,with status? Why wasnt he deported for his known extremist views?
‘Under surveillance’ resulting what the authorities suspected would happen is laughable. Same with the London Bridge attack…..’under surveillance’ before the guy had even left prison.
Going after New Zealand no country is safe from terrorism.
@andrew: no country is safe from a lunatic. ‘Terrorism’ is a handy tag.
@Alan McArdle: Some countries are more susceptible than others particularly in the era were living in.
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