Landfill
# landfill - Friday 26 April, 2013
Gas from a dump in Kildare to become electricity for 14,000 houses
Bord na Móna is building a landfill gas power plant at the Drehid facility near Allenwood, with production beginning next year.
# landfill - Monday 1 October, 2012
Household recycling rates up 7 per cent on last year
In the past 15 years, we’ve recycled 651,000 tonnes of waste in Ireland, six times the amount recycled in 1998.
# landfill - Sunday 9 September, 2012
Explainer: How do you turn a landfill into a park?
Waterford has one, and Cork will have one soon: A former landfill that is now a huge park. But how do you turn a huge mound of rubbish into a green space?
# landfill - Sunday 5 August, 2012
Landfill levy set for additional increase in July 2013
Levy to deter landfill use and increase recycling increased by 30 per cent last month – but Phil Hogan says plans are in place for another increase next summer.
# landfill - Friday 1 June, 2012
Over 75,000 disposable BBQs will be used in 2012
Repak wants consumers to think of the ‘forgotten recyclables’ from barbecue season over the June bank holiday.
# landfill - Sunday 5 February, 2012
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
# landfill - Tuesday 13 December, 2011
Planned ‘superdump’ in North Dublin cancelled
The controversial landfill in Lusk which was first proposed in 1997 had been opposed by the local community.
# landfill - Wednesday 24 August, 2011
State’s €4million bill for bringing Irish waste home from North
Around 10,000 tonnes of illegally dumped rubbish is being excavated from a quarry just north of the Border.
# landfill - Thursday 4 August, 2011
Column: We throw a third of our food away – and it’s polluting our country
As famine hits in Somalia, a mind-boggling amount of Irish food is literally piling up in landfills. Tara Connolly explains.
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