A survey, conducted by an Irish group Rehab Recycling, finds that around 100 million glass containers will be recycled this year in Ireland. Rehab Recycling, which is responsible for 90 percent of ...

A factory supplied by the Irish Republic's 1,300 bottle banks is closing, with the loss of 375 jobs. The move throws into doubt the future of glass bottle recycling in Ireland. Ardagh Glass says its ...

A single contaminated container can undo the good intentions of an entire household, and a third of Irish people don’t even know it. According to a recent Recycling Knowledge Audit, 33 per cent of ...

LAST year over 20 kilos of used packaging was recycled every second in Ireland according to packaging recycling scheme Repak. The results were announced at the launch of Repak Recycling Week which ...

Ireland's recycling rate has stagnated in the past decade. Over the same time, the amount of waste generated has increased by more than 20%. The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) findings show ...

Are you sick of the amount of plastic and packaging coming into your home? Milk cartons, cereal boxes, food packaging, junk mail, takeaway boxes – it can feel like we are locked in a cycle of creating ...