Written answers

Thursday, 30 June 2005

Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Waste Management

8:00 pm

Photo of Eamon GilmoreEamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 691: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the local authority areas with private municipal refuse collection, which provide a door-to-door collection for recyclable material; and the categories of recyclable materials, which are collected in each case. [23883/05]

Photo of Eamon GilmoreEamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 692: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the local authorities, which provide a publicly run municipal refuse collection as well as a door-to-door collection for recyclable material; and the categories of recyclable materials which are collected in each case. [23884/05]

Photo of Dick RocheDick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 691 and 692 together.

My Department does not routinely compile information on local authority waste collection services, which are a matter for those authorities. However, earlier this year in the context of the move to pay-by-use waste charging systems, the Department compiled data on the waste collection services being locally provided. I am arranging to forward this information to the Deputy. Regarding the types of recyclable materials collected, under the collection permit regulations it is a matter for the relevant permitting authority when issuing collection permits to specify the classes of waste to be segregated, collected and treated. As this is a matter determined at local level, my Department does not have the information sought in the question in this regard.

Photo of Eamon GilmoreEamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 693: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the local authority areas that have recycling or bring centres; the number of centres per area in each case; the ratio of centres to population; and the categories of waste accepted in the bring centres. [23885/05]

Photo of Dick RocheDick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department does not maintain data to the level sought in the question. In particular, there is no breakdown available on materials accepted at individual recycling or bring centres. Data on bring sites and civic amenity sites at end 2004, for the purposes of providing a subvention towards their operating costs, are still being compiled. The most recent available figures refer to the position as at end June 2004 and refer exclusively to local authority operated sites as set out in the following table.

Recycling Facilities by Local Authority.
Local Authority No. of Bring Sites and Civic Amenity Sites
Carlow 433
Cavan 281
Clare 544
Cork 1,452
Donegal 551
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown 562
Fingal 842
Galway 923
Kerry 625
Kildare 401
Kilkenny 441
Laois 371
Leitrim 360
Limerick 462
Longford 220
Louth 371
Mayo 792
Meath 372
Monaghan 221
North Tipperary 292
Offaly 391
Roscommon 302
Sligo 380
South Dublin 501
South Tipperary 732
Waterford 433
Westmeath 572
Wexford 1,462
Wicklow 553
Local Authority No. of Bring Sites and Civic Amenity Sites
City Councils
Cork 411
Dublin 1,002
Galway 160
Limerick 181
Waterford 261
Totals 17,857

Photo of Eamon GilmoreEamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 694: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage and tonnage of non-hazardous recyclable waste exported for sorting and the percentage and tonnage of non-hazardous recyclable waste exported for recycling for each year of the past five years. [23886/05]

Photo of Eamon GilmoreEamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 695: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage and tonnage of hazardous recyclable waste exported for sorting and the percentage and tonnage of hazardous recyclable waste exported for recycling for each year of the past five years. [23887/05]

Photo of Dick RocheDick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 694 and 695 together.

The compilation of detailed statistics on waste generation, recovery, recycling and final disposal are matters for the Environmental Protection Agency, which prepares the national waste database, NWD, every three years. The most recent such report was published in 2003, in respect of waste arising in 2001, and is available from the EPA. In addition, the EPA has published an interim national waste database report for the years 2003 and 2002.

The export of waste is regulated by local authorities, in accordance with the EU Transfrontier Shipment of Waste, TFS, Regulation, Council Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 of 1 February 1993 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Union, OJ L30, 6.2.1993. The following table sets out the tonnage of both hazardous and non-hazardous notified waste, which was exported in the years 2001 to 2003.

2003 2002 2001
Total Waste Exported (tonnes) 420,841 270,857 287,062
Hazardous Waste 170,678 109,547 115,366
Contaminated Soil 218,521 139,892 159,943
Non-Hazardous 31,642 21,417 11,753
Percentage recovered 69% 80% 80%

Not all exported waste is required to be notified under the transfrontier shipment of waste regulation. Wastes listed in annex II, the "green list", of that regulation may be exported for recovery without notification. Green list wastes are typically clean segregated recyclable waste fractions and enjoy unhindered movement within the EU. The following table sets out the tonnage of non-notified waste exported for recycling in the years 2001 to 2003.

2003 2002 2001
Total Non-Notified Waste Exported 858,211 568,658 371,488
% of Irish Waste Recycling Abroad 69% 72% 55.1%

Comparable figures for the years 1999 and 2000 are not available.

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