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How to recycle
There are lots of groups and organisations around Ireland that can help you re-use your stuff so you can get as many uses out of it to reduce its carbon footprint and keep it out of waste. Get involved today and start saving money and protecting your environment.
Follow these simple directions to use any of the bring banks located around the county
- Separate different colours of glass and put the correct colour into the correct coloured bank. If you have any blue glass bottles or jars, these may be placed in the green bottle bank. Please wash glass containers that have any liquid and/or food residue. Similarly, put the aluminium cans into the can banks.
- Remove lids if possible. Steel (jam jar) lids should be washed and recycled as part of the dry recyclable collection. Check with your recycling provider to see if they are allowed in your dry recycling collection.
- Never put drinking glasses, window glass, Pyrex or crockery into the bottle banks. These materials contaminate the glass bottles and jars and make it unrecyclable.
Did you know that
- Aluminium cans are not magnetic. A simple test therefore is to use a small magnet – if none is available, try magnetic catches on fridges, kitchen presses, etc. If it sticks it is not aluminium !
- A wide range of consumer goods are packaged in cans, including drinks, meats, fruits and animal foods. An increasing number of cans are now made entirely of aluminium , particularly soft drinks cans. Cans are also made from tin-plated mild steel and a mixture of steel and aluminium , all of which are recyclable. The aluminium can is the most valuable and by using recycled aluminium , 95% of the energy needed to produce aluminium cans from raw materials is saved.
- By recycling glass, you are helping to conserve a raw material and reduce the amount of materials going to landfill. During the manufacture of new glass, 40% of the raw material may be in the form of cullet (broken glass). Because of this, less energy needed to make new glass (recycled glass melts at a lower temperature in the furnace than raw materials so less fuel is required). On average, for every additional 10% of cullet used in the raw material batch, energy costs are reduced by 1% (ENFO, 2003).
However, please note that some items that you send for recycling might be suitable for reuse.
Further information
For more information phone the environment section at 057 866 4000 or email environmentadmin@laoiscoco.ie
