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No Responsibility for Waste = Privitisation = Incineration

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Thursday October 16, 2003 11:10

by Niall ÓB - Greens

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It is clear from comments made by Martin Cullen yesterday at the launch of his latest campaign to tackle waste that privitisation and incineration are firmly on the Governments agenda. However the amount of waste we produce is clearly at an unacceptably high level. If the people of Ireland do not take more responsibility for our waste by reducing, reusing and recycling we will all lose out in the longer term.

The Environmental Protection Agency said household and commercial waste grew by over 30pc in the past three years, while landfill space is dwindling.

Landfills in six of the 10 regions nationwide have less than three years' capacity left.
Every person in Ireland produces 700kg of waste each year - over three times the Dutch rate.

The minister for the Environment claimed burning rubbish and illegal dumping were far more damaging than incinerators.

The minister said while people had genuine worries about landfills and incinerators, there had been considerable "misinformation" around the debate.

He claimed burning rubbish and illegal dumping were far more damaging than incinerators.

Ireland only recycles 13pc of waste at present. While in Galway City over 50% is now recycled and the amount of waste produced per capita has also dramatically fallen.

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Comments (40 of 40)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	and in Galway	binned	Thu Oct 16, 2003 11:22
2	Crap title	Joe	Thu Oct 16, 2003 11:26
3	Where was NOB head?	PK	Thu Oct 16, 2003 11:48
4	Figures prove bin tax does not reduce waste	stop the bin tax	Thu Oct 16, 2003 11:49
5	Bin Tax HAS reduced waste	Fingal Res	Thu Oct 16, 2003 11:53
6	fingal res = fingal cc pr hack	pat c	Thu Oct 16, 2003 11:59
7	Hack demands cash for his labours	Fingal Res	Thu Oct 16, 2003 12:13
8	Tanks and trucks	Mr Disco	Thu Oct 16, 2003 12:13
9	rope	pat c	Thu Oct 16, 2003 12:28
10	Collection stats	Ray	Thu Oct 16, 2003 12:32
11	How the FFers work with the RTEers!	.	Thu Oct 16, 2003 12:59
12	Blaming people but not the corporations/capitalism	Terry	Thu Oct 16, 2003 13:37
13	Look to elsewhere	galway resident	Thu Oct 16, 2003 14:01
14	Yes, look to elsewhere	Ray	Thu Oct 16, 2003 14:07
15	ray	galway resident	Thu Oct 16, 2003 14:16
16	Reply to pat c	SDR	Thu Oct 16, 2003 14:27
17	We've already paid that money	Ray	Thu Oct 16, 2003 14:28
18	ray	galway resident	Thu Oct 16, 2003 14:39
19	No, that's not true	Ray	Thu Oct 16, 2003 15:10
20	Reply to Terry	Niall ÓB	Thu Oct 16, 2003 16:54
21	and if you don't challenge Big Business	random input	Thu Oct 16, 2003 17:00
22	GP method	Joe	Thu Oct 16, 2003 17:07
23	Hold on one minute	Niall ÓB	Thu Oct 16, 2003 17:39
24	pollutor pays	conor (wsm personal capacity)	Thu Oct 16, 2003 17:46
25	all of the above	lish	Thu Oct 16, 2003 17:57
26	Reply to Niall	Terry	Thu Oct 16, 2003 18:13
27	Statistics ???	Niall ÓB	Thu Oct 16, 2003 18:17
28	Glass bottles?	Ray	Thu Oct 16, 2003 18:24
29	Re: Statistics + Recycling	Terry	Thu Oct 16, 2003 18:31
30	Patronising Green B****x	North Inner City Dub	Thu Oct 16, 2003 18:38
31	To North Inner City Dub	Patronising Green B****x	Thu Oct 16, 2003 19:29
32	Control waste	Green	Thu Oct 16, 2003 20:40
33	How about a Mass Shop And Drop !!!	Dede	Thu Oct 16, 2003 22:56
34	shop and drop	conor (wsm personal capacity)	Fri Oct 17, 2003 10:27
35	Shop 'n drop idea	.	Sat Oct 18, 2003 13:14
36	one bit of legislation we can use - in the shops	pasionaria	Sat Oct 18, 2003 19:58
37	Re. The Litter Act	mr. dubious	Sat Oct 18, 2003 21:28
38	OK I think I found it ..... Section 29 of the Waste Management Act of 1996	mr. dubious	Sat Oct 18, 2003 21:36
39	You might want to check	binned	Tue Oct 21, 2003 22:41
40	thats supposed to read on site not in site	binned	Tue Oct 21, 2003 22:43

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