Written answers
Thursday, 30 June 2005
Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Waste Management
8:00 pm
Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context
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]
Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context
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]
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context
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.
Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context
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]
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context
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 |
Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context
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]
Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context
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]
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context
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.
No comments