COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC REALM AND CLIMATE CHANGE SPC
Tuesday, February 02, 2016
HEADED ITEM NO.
Draft Recycling Strategy
Community Recycling Strategy
A draft of the revised Community Recycling Strategy 2016 – 2021 was presented to the November 2015 meeting of the Environment, Public Realm and Climate Change SPC. At the meeting it was agreed that the matter would be revisited at the February 2016 meeting with a view to finalising the document. Members of the SPC were asked to make any submissions they might have on the document prior to the February meeting taking place. As no submissions have been made it is proposed that the revised strategy document is accepted without any changes.
Next steps
A number of sites have been lost in the past number of years and some others are due to be lost in the coming months, as the owners of the sites have requested removal of bring banks from their property for reasons such as security and anti-social behaviour. It is intended that every effort will be made to replace these sites in the locality nearby.
The sites lost (or soon to be lost) and to be replaced are as follows –
- Brittas Community Centre
- Avoca Handweavers, Rathcoole
- Roadstone Social Club, Kingswood Village
The issue of a lack of recycling bring banks in the North Clondalkin area has been raised on a number of occasions in the past, however when proposed sites were examined all were found to fail the requirement to be a minimum distance of 50 metres from the nearest house. These sites will now be examined further to determine their suitability or otherwise in accordance with the changed siting criteria. These sites are as follows –
- Neilstown Shopping Centre
- Rowlagh Community Centre
Other sites proposed in the past but which also failed the siting criteria are set out below and will also now be re-examined -
- Woodford Shopping Centre
- Lidl car park, New Nangor Road
- Newcastle Village
Other proposals
- The strategy document identifies 70 bring bank sites in total which are currently in place around the County, 45 of these have glass recycling banks (25 have not) and 38 have textile banks (32 have not). All 70 sites will now be examined to determine if they are suitable for the placing of containers for both waste streams.
- The availability of recycling infrastructure around the County will now be examined in it’s totality to determine where any deficits may exist and how these can be addressed. In this regard the requirement to have a recycling facility within 1km of every house will be examined.