Repak Recycling Week 2009

Peter Donegan and model Pippa O'Connor help launch Repak Recycling Week with a 'Glass House' window display in Dunnes Stores, Georges Street

Welcome to our 9th Repak Recycling Week, designed to highlight and encourage householders and businesses to recycle their used packaging.

Promotional campaigns such as this and Repak's direct funding of packaging recycling collections over the last 11 years, have helped Ireland grow its packaging recycling to over 713,000 tonnes (diverted away from landfill) in 2008, and increased our packaging recycling rate from under 15% in 1998 to well over 64% in 2008.

During Repak Recycling Week from 12th to 18th October we at Repak ask you to do your best to Recycle More and Recycle Better.

Recycle More: increase the range of materials you regularly recycle. Learn more about what materials can be recycled by familiarising yourself with what your contractor will accept in your recycling bin.
Recycle More: recycle beyond the kitchen. Research shows that 96% of adults recycle regularly from the kitchen but this falls to 35% for the bedroom, 52% for the bathroom, and 20% for the home office or study.
Recycle Better: the quality of material presented for recycling is our responsibility and not just the responsibility of waste contractors. We must present rinsed materials for recycling to prevent cross contamination of other material (i.e. paper or cardboard soiled from unwashed food cans). The better quality the recycling material the more marketable it is and the higher price it will attract. Indeed particularly badly contaminated material may not be acceptable for recycling.

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