Families in Kilkenny are being challenged to find and recycle five end-of-life electrical items in a bid to improve our recycling performance after consumption soared over the last year. The country’s largest e-waste recycling scheme, WEEE Ireland, is urging Kilkenny residents to become e-detectives for the month of October and follow electrical leads around their […]
Householders in Kilkenny recycled 51,000 more batteries through retailers last year than in 2019, new figures reveal. Data from WEEE Ireland reveals that environmentally-conscious consumers in the county brought 135,400 used batteries – 3.4 tonnes – back to supermarkets, hardware and electronic stores in 2020. That was a rise of 50,800 on the 84,600 prevented