EPA: National Waste Report 2012 published

The EPA have just published the 2012 report which presents information on waste generation and management in 2012. The report illustrates progress towards meeting EU recovery, recycling and diversion from landfill targets. The report shows that Ireland achieved the 2006 End of Life Vehicle (ELV) Directive targets for the first time and that Ireland is on course to meet the 2013 Landfill Directive target for the diversion of biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) from landfill. Ireland’s recovery rate for packaging waste was 87% in 2012 which well exceeds the Packaging Directive target of 60%.

Ireland is nearly double the WEEE collection target (4 kg/person) with 7.5 kg collected per person in Ireland in 2012. While these figures indicate that Irish households produce a lot of WEEE, they show that the household WEEE collection systems, which were put in place by the electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers, importers and their compliance schemes, are working well.

National Waste Report 2012.pdf - 3,802 Kbytes

Thursday, 21 August 2014