A new survey carried out for Ireland’s national compliance scheme for electronic recycling - WEEE Ireland - shows that 16% of consumers would put old or broken electronic items into a bin, skip or dump, even though it is free to recycle any such item at a local recycling centre or at an electrical retail outlet when equivalent new items are being purchased.

A workshop and demonstration aimed at highlighting the benefits of composting will be held at the Scarrif Area Office on Wednesday 2 July at 7pm.

The total number of PCs in use today has broken the one billion mark - but, not enough is being done to ensure all these machines are safely broken down and recycled.

Claims that deceptive market conditions skewed a recycling collection report to favour kerbside sort schemes have been made by a recycling and waste management company.

Attendees were told of a 6.6% increase - equating to an increase of 40,000 tonnes - in recycling rates for 2007, at the opening of the Repak Annual Members conference, which took place on 19 June.

Cork County Council has now seen the completion of the Farm Film Collections within the county - organised and managed by the Irish Farm Films Producer Group (IFFPG). 

WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has published the results of a comprehensive study into different household recycling systems.

An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen TD has launched Ireland’s first ever co-ordinated public battery collection and recycling scheme at the Bridge Centre in Tullamore, Co Offaly.

In the UK, Tesco, Waitrose and Sainsbury's have become the latest retailers to sign up to a recently-launched water filter cartridge recycling initiative operated by filter manufacturer Brita.

With over 100 million pounds of equipment recycled, 2007 marked a new record for Dell as the year with the largest product recycling volume - a 20 percent increase from 2006.