It’s Repak Recycling Week!

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.

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Recycling the Big and Bulky Items in Your Home!

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!
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Do you know the Dos and Don’ts of Composting?

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!

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Recycling in the Bathroom

There is no doubt that Irish households have massively improved when it comes to recycling items in the kitchen.  There are however other areas in the home which are often overlooked when it comes to properly segregating waste.  Today, we will look at the bathroom and give you some handy tips as to how you can increase your recycling rate!

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Are your family tuned into Pay By Weight?

Since the electrification of Ireland, households have become accustomed to managing their electricity usage to avoid excessive bills.  The mere thought of forgetting to turn off an immersion has resulted in many family days out being cut short to hurry home and check!  The government’s introduction of Pay by Weight bin collection aims to drive similarly usage focused behaviours in terms of waste disposal.  Here are some key facts you should be aware of.

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Dealing with Hazardous Waste in your Home

Some of the household products we use on a daily basis can be potentially hazardous to ourselves, our family and our pets. Items like household cleaners, batteries, light bulbs and paint all contain hazardous substances that need to be stored and disposed of in the correct manner. Read more

Tips to reduce paper and print costs in the office!

With the introduction of pay by weight waste collection, households throughout the country are making a concerted effort to cut down and segregate their waste properly.

These efforts can easily be translated into the workplace which is where most of us spend most of the day. Reducing waste in the workplace can have a significant impact on the environment and on business overheads.

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Battery Waste Disposal Guide

Welcome back to our blog series.  Our hot topic for this month is battery waste disposal in your home. People today are using more and more batteries than ever before, whether it be in your phone, TV remote or your laptop.   Read more

Easter Collection Schedule

Please note there are NO CHANGES to collection schedules on Good Friday and Easter Monday

Top Tips for Using Your Recycling Bin

Welcome back to our blog series on helping you reduce household waste.  From the 1st of July every household in the country will pay for bin collection on a pay by weight basis so reducing the weight in your bins has a financial benefit for your household.  In today’s blog post, we address our six top tip for using your recycling bin wisely!

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