Re: Finally - Dublin Corpo are recycling plastic!

[JLAWLOR@wit.ie]

stop emailing me..


Date sent:      	Mon, 26 Mar 2001 22:45:46 +0100
From:           	Anthony <antg@gofree.indigo.ie>
To:             	concerns@voice.buz.org
Subject:        	Finally - Dublin Corpo are recycling plastic!
Send reply to:  	concerns@voice.buz.org

> Greetings all,
> 
> Two weeks ago, I was pleasantly surprised to discover two bins for
> plastic collection at the Rathmines Corporation Depot. There were was
> one for PET bottles and another for packaging. Up until now I had been
> saving up all my old plastic bottles until I was able to get the use
> of a car to bring them all the way to Navan Amenity Centre.
> 
> I talked to another friend who lives in Stoneybatter and he told me
> that there are also bins for plastic at the Grangegorman Depot. I'm
> sure there are more such facilities in Dublin but when I went to the
> Corporation website I couldn't find any reference to the fact that
> they now facilitate the recycling of plastic.
> 
> It really annoys me that Dublin Corporation has such a half-hearted
> approach to recycling. For all their waste management rhetoric, they
> really drag their heels when it comes to putting schemes into
> practice. Even if they do provide the facilities, there is no
> encouragement to use them. Householders and businesses still have to
> transport the waste material themselves. I'm lucky that I live close
> enough and am fit and able-bodied that I can carry material? by hand
> myself.
> 
> I was talking to a staff member of the newsagents next door and asked
> him if they recycled the old papers. He told me that they had looked
> into it but they would have had to pay for it to be collected and they
> were already paying rates to cover the cost of commercial refuse
> collection. 'Why pay extra for something that they were already paying
> for?' was their understandable attitude. 
> 
> There is also very little advertising of the Bring Centres. I only
> discovered the one in Rathmines by accident. There are small signs
> -with an even smaller recycling logo- at each end of Mount Pleasant
> Avenue roughly pointing in its direction. It would not break the
> budget to publicise the facilities by putting up posters in public
> places such as Shopping Centres. Public libraries (run by the
> corporation) would be ideal. The Corporation website informs the user
> that the facilities exist but does not provide detailed information
> about the type or condition of material that can be recycled. Eg. It
> doesn't say anywhere that paper with plastic isn't suitable for
> recycling. 
> 
> This has unintentionally turned into a bit of a rant, but I feel
> strongly about this issue. I appreciate that the Corporation is making
> steps in the right direction with the problem of waste management. But
> there is no point providing facilities when it wouldn't cost very much
> to inform those members of the public who are interested.
> 
> That's all for now, (My chest feels a bit lighter)
> -Anthony Geoghegan.
> 
> 
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