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Environment:
Waste Management
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Change, Heritage,
Housing, Nuclear
Issues, Planning, Waste
Management and Water Quality
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Policy |
Dublin's waste problems have reached crisis proportions. The problem stems from years of neglect and reliance on a waste
technology which consisted of digging big holes and filling them with rubbish. Alternative waste management solutions such as re-cycling and the elimination of waste at its source have been grossly neglected.
The Green Party policy for Waste Management is based on the Polluter-Pays and the
Waste Not Pay Not²principals based on the action sequence of Waste Prevention, Reduction,
Re-use, Recycling and Environmentally Sustainable Storage, without incineration or Superdumps.
The Green Party will set a national target of 50% waste reduction by 2005 and employ Zero Waste Targets by 2020. We will develop and implement a New National Waste Management Strategy legislation to focus on applying financial incentives for consumers recycling or returning goods while providing tax-incentives to manufacturers to drastically reduce their usage of non-recyclable, non-compostable materials.
To read the Green Party's full Waste Policy document click here
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Press
Releases
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Latest press releases:Environment:
Waste Management
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to: All Press
Releases 2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
Dún
Laoghaire, Environment,
Justice
and Latest
Press Releases
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25
November 2005 Incinerators
decision an indictment of Government’s waste policy
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15th
September 2005 New measures needed to tackle illegal waste disposal.
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23
August 2005 Green Party slams Government’s record on recycling.
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For more press releases on waste
management click here
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Campaigns and Events |
Green Party organise a 'Message
in a Bottle Campaign' to Envionment Minister
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Writings |
More to waste management than 'burn it or bury it'
Irish Times, 20 April 2005
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Reduce, re-use and recycle' is the antidote to illegal dumping
The Evening Herald, 28th March 2001.
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Dáil
Questions
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Dáil
questions tabled by Ciarán Cuffe: Environment: Waste Management
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Links to: latest,
full list,
justice,
environment
questions
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29 November 2005
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Environment
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WEEE
Charges
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29 November 2005
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Environment
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Wicklow Waste
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29 November 2005
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Environment |
Recycling
Newspapers
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To read more questions on waste management tabled in the Dáil by
Ciarán Cuffe click here
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Environmental
Protection Agency |
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For information on local recycling
facilities in the Dún Laoghaire area click
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last updated 9 February 2006
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