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Question from Councillor Brigid Manton: Waste Management Sustainability and the Circular Economy. AI091473

 

 

Meeting: 09/10/2023 - County Council (Item 366)

Councillor B. Manton - Waste Management Sustainability and the Circular Economy

“To ask the Chief Executive, given over the past decade there has been a substantial increase in population and business activity in Fingal, Waste Management companies in Fingal have applied for the lifting of tonnage restrictions in certain areas to help them manage the recycling demand, under The Housing for All initiative it requires extra recycling for building and rebuilding of houses, under present restrictions the demand is not being met in the Republic, and a lot of material is being recycled north of the border, this in fact, puts the recycling of material outside the EU and does not support EU Critical Raw Material legislation, it has implications for our carbon footprint and does not support a circular economy, how is this element of recycling waste going to be managed in the future and canshe provide a breakdown of how much we are recycling in Fingal; how much is being exported to the UK; and how the figures compare to the figures of a decade ago in relation to increases in waste and increases in our capacity to manage it?”

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