It has become fashionable to want to save the environment in recent years. People flocked to the recycling cause; wanted to stop the felling of trees; fretted about excessive packaging in the local supermarket and lamented the fact that George Bush’s America would not play ball on Kyoto. It was good to be green.
Now things are somewhat different. While...
We are the throwaway generation – the disposable society.
Excess packaging, disposable single-use products and a general wasteful attitude have all contributed to the waste mountain generated by homes and individuals every day in Ireland.
Irish people on average produce the largest amount of domestic and commercial waste in the EU at 824 kg per person, in part...
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