Get Creative With Your Waste This Christmas

Christmas is a time of festivity, giving and family but it is also a time where the levels of waste produced increases. Most of us forget to recycle or dispose of waste properly or are not aware of the recycling rules. In order to help our Barna Recycling customers dispose of their waste correctly, we have provided the below list to follow this Christmas.

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Christmas Collection Changes

Household customers due for collection on:

Christmas Day has been rescheduled to Saturday 23/12/2017
New Years Day has been rescheduled to Saturday 30/12/2017

All other collections due over the Christmas and New Year period will experience no change to their scheduled collections. 

Please leave your bins out the night before to ensure collection, as collection times may differ due to traffic, weather conditions and other circumstances on any given day.

Introducing Your New Household Recycling List

There is still a lot of confusion surrounding what can and cannot be recycled in Ireland, so to assist people in making the right decisions, The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and the Irish Waste Management Association has worked together to produce a list of materials that are acceptable nationally for recycling.

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Barna Recycling at GMIT Green Campus Day

Barna Recycling attended the GMIT Green Campus Day on Monday 2nd October. The day was officially opened by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten TD.

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Summer Break Does Not Mean a Recycling Break

We are very much in the midst of our ‘Irish Summer’, but let’s not forget about the importance of keeping up our good recycling habits. Here are some great tips to consider during the summer months.

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Barna Recycling Win Athlone Golden Island Recycling Centre Contract

Barna Recycling recently won the contract for the recycling centre in Golden Island, Athlone. This has now added to the list of areas that Barna Recycling service.

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Download our Free Customer Household App

Barna Recycling are delighted to announce that we now have a free Household Customer app available for our Barna Recycling Household Customers. The app is currently available for Android phones only but will be available for iPhone users in the next few weeks.

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Repak Pushing Recycling Education in Schools

Repak recently created the ‘Recycle and Change for the Better’ education programme to teach students about best recycling practices in a response to the rising levels of recycling bin contamination in Ireland.

This programme is set up in the hope to change student attitudes and behaviours and encourage them to become passionate ambassadors. Repak have created 5 animation videos to teach the students about the importance of recycling. The videos include lessons from Jenny the Jam Jar, Cormac the Can, Bridget the Bottle, and Bobby the Box.

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Additional Areas for our Brown Bin Service!

Barna Recycling will now be providing Brown Bins for Food Waste to additional areas. These areas include:

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World Earth Day

Last week, the world celebrated Earth Day. April 22^nd marks the anniversary of this modern environmental movement that began back in 1970.

The idea was formed by U.S Senator, Gaylord Nelson after witnessing the massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California in 1969. In 1990 Earth Day went global, mobilising 200 million people in 141 countries and lifting environmental issues onto the world stage.

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