January 26th, 2019 A new Cork-based anti-plastic initiative has urged Mondelēz International, the producer of Cadbury chocolates, to stop packaging its products with single-use plastics. The Plastic Letters Project names one company that uses single-use plastic packaging each week and asks consumers to email a letter of complaints to that company. Read more…
December 20th, 2018 Just a few years ago, handing a reusable container to a server in any shop or restaurant would most likely have resulted in a quizzical stare. Today, using a Keep Cup has become an ever-growing trend, with new ‘zero waste lifestyle’ blogs taking over the Internet. While Read more…
December 7th, 2018 On Monday, An Bord Pleanála (ABP) granted permission to Daly Products Ltd to construct a plastic factory in Poundlick, Skibbereen, Co Cork. The judgement, postponed twice during the summer, was long-awaited by those who had appealed the County Council’s original approval of the proposed facility. The Board’s Read more…
November 10th, 2018 A Wicklow-based environmental group has called on the Government to bring in new legislation that would impose hefty fines on businesses found guilty of large-scale environmental contamination. The group’s appeal follows a recent plastic spill at Dublin’s Forty Foot. SIAC, the company responsible, was working on the Read more…
October 15th, 2018 Sixteen third level institutions in Ireland will go plastic-free this Wednesday as part of a sick of plastic environmental campaign. University College Cork (UCC), Trinity College Dublin, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) and National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) are among the institutes that will participate in Read more…
October 5th, 2018 The Minister for the Environment is set to push for a ban on single-use plastic items across the public sector. Speaking at the Environment Ireland conference yesterday, Denis Naughten TD said that extra attention will now go toward fighting the “proliferation of single-use plastics” across Ireland. A Read more…
September 25th, 2018 The onus on ending the use of non-recyclable plastics must be placed squarely at the door of producers and supermarkets “pushing” plastics on consumers, the Social Democrats have warned. The call from the party’s climate spokesperson, Councillor Cian O’Callaghan, comes after the launch of Repak’s Plastic Packaging Recycling Read more…
September 3rd, 2018 Today sees the start of Zero Waste Week to highlight how to eliminate the likes of plastic packaging and food waste from our everyday lives. The opening of the week will take place at Small Changes in Drumcondra, Co Dublin, an independent grocery shop that sponsored last Read more…
August 22nd, 2018 Bottled water companies are quietly depleting aquifers across the globe. This is the findings of a recent report in Bloomberg that revealed Nestlé, one of the world’s leading bottled water producers, is exploiting economically depressed areas with lax water laws, sucking their aquifers dry, and paying very Read more…
August 13th, 2018 Only four of Ireland’s 50 beaches, rivers and harbours are clean enough to meet European norms, a new survey has found. The survey from Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) and carried out by An Taisce found that 40 per cent of the areas surveys are either littered Read more…
