Okay so, the festive season is coming to a close. You’ve eaten enough turkey and cake to feed a village, and made enough New Year’s resolutions to write a novel. The decorations have been taken down, but there is one last job to do… recycle the Christmas tree.
We create a lot of waste during the Christmas period and January seems to be a month of filling our bins with paper, boxes, and plenty of empty chocolate tins! There are many ways to manage our waste during the festive season and we’ve put together some useful and fun tips to help you along the way.
Teachers, we salute you! We are regularly contacted by primary school teachers throughout Connacht enquiring about clever and novel ways to help encourage school children to recycle. We’ve put together a few ideas to inspire primary school pupils to get involved in recycling. These ideas utilise waste items your class generates every day. Involving children in recycling from an early age teaches them lifelong skills!
Illegal dumping continues to be a big issue in Ireland and according to the Irish Times, Minister for the Environment Denis Naughten said that illegal dumping “remains a problem effecting too many communities in Ireland”. The three R’s, ‘Reduce, Re-use, Recycle’ is an obvious solution to decrease the level of illegal dumping in our country.
It’s that time of year again… zombies and witches are roaming around. Frankenstein is on the loose, and little monsters will be knocking on your door looking for treats! You better decorate the house before little witches and wizards come to visit… fill your home with pumpkins, lanterns, and spider webs. Halloween is a funny and freaky time of year! But, before you get too scared, we’ve made a list of some DIY recycled crafts and decorations ideas. We have trawled the internet – or in this case creeped through it – to find the best recycled craft and decoration ideas. These crafts will make Halloween 2016 an unforgettable and eco-friendly one!
We all want to do what we can to protect the environment for the generations to come, but it is important that we do it correctly. The list of recycling logos can be confusing. It is important we know what each of them mean so that we can be sure we are recycling our waste in the right way. To learn what is allowed and not allowed in your Barna Recycling Blue Bin, follow this link ‘What Goes in my Blue Bin?’.
The list of recycling logos can be confusing. It is important we know what each of them mean so that we can be sure we are recycling our waste in the right way.
Congratulations to Alan Shattock from Clifden who recently won 12 months free bin collection from Barna Recycling having entered a draw on sign up for a Pay by Weight package! Alan is pictured here with Mary Booth from Barna Recycling. Don’t forget to keep an eye on our blog to hear all about our upcoming competitions and offers.
Repak Ireland are on a mission to ‘Save our Nation from Contamination’. This week is all about understanding contamination when recycling. Contamination happens when non-recyclable items are mixed with recyclable items. According to Repak.ie over 169,000 tonnes of plastic packaging waste are generated per year in Ireland and due to contamination only 36% of plastics are actually recycled.
At Barna Recycling, we get asked every day about how households should best dispose of some large, bulky, weird and wonderful items that have outlived their usefulness! The first question, we always ask is this “Can the item be reused, repurposed, fixed or recycled in some way?” There is often another use or another user for an item that you might not have thought of! Here are a few items we hear about regularly and how best to deal with them!
Composting seems easy, but do we really know what we can and can’t put into our compost bins? Think of composting as giving back to the earth. It is an affordable and natural form of recycling and it will also cut back on weight in your black general waste bin, saving you money!
