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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 11, 2017

QUESTION NO.15

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask that SDCC look at can crushers at public parks to increase recycling and bring a cost and report to the Environment SPC for discussion? 

REPLY:

The Council does not provide nor operate can crushing type equipment at the recycling bring banks or at the civic amenity.  Most glass recycling bring bank sites in the County also have a can receptacle as well as a number of glass receptacles and it is proposed that these facilities will continue to be provided and expanded on around the County, and that many such facilities are located in public parks.  It should also be noted that the household green bin accepts cans, both aluminium and tin, and therefore there would appear to be no requirement for the provision of additional facilities around the County to accept cans. The Council's return for the National Waste Report in 2016 shows that a total of 4,429 tonnes of glass was recycled through the glass recycling bring bank network in the County while a total of 23 tonnes of cans was recycled.