Recycling Information

Recycling Tips | Refuse Collection | Are You Burning Waste in Your Backyard | Composting | Hazardous Waste | Diesal Eashing | WEEE | Recycling Packaging | End of Life Vehicles

 

The Monaghan County Council website has a great deal of information about recycling caring for our environment generally. It is summarised in these pages, but do take a look at the full and detailed information the Council has provided.  Click here to go to Monaghan County Council’s environment pages.

 

Recycling Tips

 

• Develop a recycling mentality.
• Begin to understand the value of waste, which you put in the bin.
• Use the recycling banks throughout the county.
• Buy both recycled and recyclable products.
• If you have farm plastics (silage bale wraps, mushroom compost bags) avail of the free collection from farms by IFFPG.  Contact them on Freephone 1800 300 444.
• Look for minimum packaging and avoid plastic packaging if you can.
• Bring your own shopping bag instead of getting new plastic ones every time.

 

In County Monaghan during 2005 715 tonnes of glass were collected at the bring sites throughout the county.  This is an increase on the figure of 564 tonnes in 2004.  Aluminium can collections at the bring sites totalled 20.5 tonnes, again an increase over 2004 of 13.06 tonnes.  Monaghan County Council operates 22 recycling banks for glass and textiles throughout the county, and one Recycling Centre.  

 

Customers are asked not to leave bottles, boxes, bags or rubbish beside the bring banks.  If the bring bank is full please return with your bottles another day, or use an alternative bring bank. People found littering the bring sites are liable to an immediate fine of €125.  New CCTV cameras are in place to prevent illegal dumping at certain bring banks.  If you are caught on camera, you WILL be fined.

 

The Bring Banks are situated at the following locations and accept glass bottles and aluminium cans only. Please separate coloured bottles and place in appropriate receptacles. Wash and crush cans for recycling.

 

The nearest bottle banks/aluminium-can banks to Errigal Truagh are located at:

 

• Carrickroe Church car park
• Emyvale Community Centre car park
• Monaghan Town, Glaslough Street car park
• Monaghan Town, beside Town Council car park
• Monaghan Town, Samsbridge Service Station
• Monaghan Town, Sloanes Spar Shop, Cootehill Road

 Other recycling banks are located at:

 

• Aghabog, St. Mary’s RC Church car park
• Ballybay, Town Park Entrance
• Carrickmacross, Magheross Filling Station
• Carrickmacross, Town Council car park
• Castleblayney, Commons car park
• Clones, Town Council car park
• Clontibret, Community Centre car park
• Glaslough, Community Centre car park
• Inniskeen, Old Church car park opposite Kavanagh Centre
• Latton, Community Centre car park
• Rockcorry, Old Mill, Rockcorry
• Scotstown, St. Mary’s RC Church car park
• Tydavnet, Community Centre car park

 Recycling Centre

 

• Scotch Corner, Clontibret.

 

You can recycle the following:  Cardboard, plastic, newspapers, magazines, books, glass, aluminium cans, textiles, tins, batteries, green waste, scrap metal, fluorescent tubes, waste oils, wood, waste electrical equipment, builders rubble and waste fuel filters.

 

 Refuse Collection

 

In 1997, Monaghan County Council privatised the domestic refuse collection service in the county.  The Council now regulates the collection of domestic waste by licensed waste contractors.  You can contact any of the five contractors and arrange to have your refuse collected.

 

• Mahony's Waste Disposal, Tirkeenan, Monaghan – 086 4008582.
• Exomex Ltd, c/o Scotch Corner, Monaghan - Tel 047 80888.
• Central Skip Hire, Monalia, Donaghmoyne, Carrickmacross. Tel 042 9662028.
• Cavan Waste Disposal, 69 Church Street, Cavan. - 049 4332622.
• Oxigen Environmental, 3 Williamson Place, Dundalk, Co. Louth - 042 9330789.

 

Householders should ensure their waste contractors hold a certificate Waste Collection Permit.

 

Alternatively, householders can dispose of their domestic refuse by delivering it to the Recycling Centre at the Monaghan County Council Landfill site for a cost of €6.50 per bag at the Recycling Centre at Scotch Corner, County Monaghan.  For further information telephone 047 80888.  The Recycling Centre is open Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm and on Saturdays 9am to 4pm.

 

PLEASE NOTE:  The Landfill is not open to the General Public.  The penalty for illegal dumping is a maximum fine of €1,904.61.  If you need any assistance on collection procedures please telephone the Environment Section on 047 30592.

 

Monaghan County Council provides a Hardship Fund to help towards the cost of waste disposal.  This Fund is only available to people who are experiencing severe personal and financial hardship ie recent diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, following a bereavement etc.  It is not available to everyone in the County who has a low income.  Application forms can be found in the Download section.  

 

Are you burning waste in your backyard?

 

Public are concerned about the amount of dioxins emitted by incinerators/thermal treatment plants, however, almost three quarters of dioxin emissions arise from domestic burning of waste.  Dioxins from backyard burning can eventually settle on nearby fields, where livestock can eat them.  As disposal of waste becomes more expensive, some people think that burning their waste in their backyard is the cheapest and quickest way of getting rid of their waste.  When humans consume dairy products or meat from these livestock they can end up with dioxins in their own bodies.

 

Backyard burning waste is illegal under the Air Pollution Act 1987.  The Act states, "the occupier of any premises shall not cause or permit an emission from such premises in such quantity, or in such a manner as to be a nuisance".  Prosecution under this Act can result in a fine of up to €1,270.  Remember burning waste in your backyard damages the environment, damages your health, your family's health and your neighbour's health and you could end up in court.

 

Composting

 

Home composting is something practical we can all do to help the environment.  Surveys have shown that a typical family can divert up to a third of their waste away from landfill by composting.  The material that is suitable for composting is uncooked kitchen waste and garden waste.  Paper and cardboard can also be composted.

 

The end product can be used in your garden in a variety of ways.  Typically, people use it for their flowerbeds, vegetable patches, as a top dressing on their lawns and for seed and potting mixes.  Composters can be purchased at a cost of €30 from the Recycling Centre.

For more information go to http://www.raceagainstwaste.com/learn/.

 

Hazardous Waste

 

Proper hazardous waste management requires a systematic and coherent approach with emphasis on prevention.  To fulfil this, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has prepared the National Hazardous Waste Management Plan.  Every household and business in Ireland creates a certain amount of hazardous waste, eg batteries, cooking and engine oil, old paint tins, fluorescent tubes, old unwanted medicines, and old gardening products such as weed killer.  The Recycling Centre at Scotch Corner will accept some of your household hazardous waste in the form of:

 

• Car and household batteries
• Engine and cooking oil
• Fluorescent tubes
• Used mobile phones and chargers

 

If your company or business is producing hazardous waste, you are responsible for making sure that it is disposed of in a proper environmental manner.  Your company must comply with the Waste Management (Movement of Hazardous Waste) Regulations 1998.

CI forms are available for the transportation of hazardous waste within the Republic of Ireland & TFS forms are available for the shipment of hazardous waste Cross Border or within the EU. These forms are obligatory for the transportation of waste and must be completed. Failure to do so could result in a prosecution.  For more information on disposing of hazardous waste and application forms please contact the Environment Section on 047 30592.

 

Illegal Diesel Washing cost to Monaghan County Council

 

Monaghan County Council spent nearly €300,000 from September 2005 – September 2006 on clean ups after illegal diesel laundering activities. It had to respond to eighteen instances of diesel wash dumping in this period alone.  Approximately 78,270 litres of hazardous wash had to be dealt with and disposed of during this period.

 

The Council incurs this cost because the hazardous waste created has to be sent abroad for disposal.  Furthermore, specialist contractors need to be brought in to remove the containers, which contain the hazardous substance.  Monaghan County Council would ask the public to be vigilant and if they see dumped barrels or IBCs to contact the Environment Section immediately on 047 30592 or Freephone 1800 200014.

 

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)

 

Retailers of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) are affected by new EU legislation on waste electric and electrical equipment, which came into effect in Ireland on the 13th August 2005. All retailers of WEEE in County Monaghan must register with Monaghan County Council. The current registration fee is €20pa. Retailers are required to take back WEEE from members of the public free of charge. Take back is on a one for one basis only, and the WEEE must be of a similar type or have performed the same function as the new item purchased.

 

Retailers are entitled to dispose of household WEEE that has been exchanged for purchase of a new item, free of charge at the Council’s Recycling Centre at Scotch Corner.  Retailers must also ensure that the storage and transport of WEEE collected meets with the requirements of the Regulations.  They must also ensure that private households are informed by the WEEE take back facilities available to them.  Visit the Environment Download section to download a Retailer application form and Retailer Information.  For further information, contact semurphy@monaghancoco.ie

 

Recycling Packaging - Waste Management (Packaging) Regulations 2003

 

The Waste Management Packaging Regulations 2003 are designed to promote the recovery of packaging waste by imposing recycling obligations on all "Major Producers" who place packaging or packaged products onto the Irish market.

 

Producers of packaging are people who in the course of their business supply to others packaging material, packaging or packaged products. Major producers are people who place more than 25 tonnes of packaging onto the Irish market annually and have a turnover greater than €1 million (Hardware Stores and Pharmacies - turnover must be over €3.65million).

 

All producers of packaging waste must take practicable steps to secure the recovery of packaging waste arising on their own premises. This would include packaging waste of goods consumed on the premises, timber pallets, drums, crates, plastic wrapping, cardboard boxes and other packaging on goods supplied to the producer.

 

Under these regulations, your company can either join Repak (Telephone 01 4670190) or become Self Compliant with your Local Authority. An application form can be downloaded from the download section.  For a leaflet on the regulations, or more details please e-mail Kim McKenna 

 

Waste Management (End of Life Vehicles) Regulations 2006

 

The Waste Management (End of Life Vehicles) Regulations 2006 came into operation on the 8th June 2006.  The key aims are to achieve new recovery and recycling targets and ensure that all end of life vehicles are dismantled, treated and recovered by industry at no cost to the owners of the vehicles and in a way that does not cause environmental pollution.

 

Producers who are involved in the placing of vehicles on the market must establish a national collection system (at least one in every county) where end of life vehicles of that producers brand may be collected, stored and treated in accordance with the Regulations.

 

All producers involved in the placing of the specified vehicles in the state must register with each Local Authority and pay the appropriate fee in accordance with the Regulations. They must apply for registration not later than 21st September 2006.

Visit the Environment Download section to download registration forms, details of ATF’s, Frequently Asked Questions and other guidelines on End of Life Vehicles.  For further information email Kim McKenna .