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Survey Reveals a Super Clean Ireland for 2015!

The results of the Anti-Litter League survey of 40 towns and cities throughout Ireland revealed  that more than 40% were cleaner than the European average.

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Happy New Year From All At Barna Recycling!

Barna Recycling would like to thank all our customers for your support throughout 2014.

Your custom is most appreciated and we look forward to serving you in 2015.

Happy Holidays from All at Barna Recycling!

Top Christmas Recycling Tips

At Barna Recycling we know your recycling bin will be jam packed following a visit by the main man, Santa Claus on the 25^th of December.

To help you recycle as much paper and cardboard packaging as possible over the festive season, we have compiled the following helpful hints with a little help from www.recyclemore.ie!

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Irish Households Generate 25% More Packaging over the Christmas Season

Repak estimates that Irish households will generate 25% more used packaging over the Christmas season than usual.

Over this period, we will consume:

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Recycling – It’s a Wrap!

As the festive period approaches, we are all busy scurrying about buying gifts, wrapping presents and decorating our homes, offices and schools.  Everything seems to cost so much money at this time of the year so here at Barna Recycling we set about helping you save some Euros on wrapping paper with these creative alternatives!

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Bosco is Back and Wants Your Old Batteries!

Bosco and the good people at WEEE Ireland are asking all the boys and girls to gather up their old, used batteries as new electrical toys and goods come into houses around the country over the Christmas period.

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Congratulations to Our Halloween Competition Winners!

Massive Congratulations to the Winners of Our Recyclable Halloween Costume Competition

1^st Prize – €50 One 4 All Voucher – Daniel Flanagan, Galway City

2^nd Prize – €30 One 4 All Voucher – Evan Hennessy (and his sister Katie) Co. Roscommon

3^rd Prize – €20 One 4 All Voucher – Siún O’Flaherty, Co. Galway

Help! What Goes in My Brown Composting Bin?

We get asked this question a lot so we decided to answer it in today’s blog post. A general rule of thumb when it comes to composting is that anything that was once living can be composted.

Click here to visit our handy guide which lists the items you  can place in your Barna Recycling Brown Bin.

The contents of your brown bin is taken to our purpose built composting facility with the capacity to manage 40,000 tonnes of organic waste annually. Here the waste is processed into compost for use as a natural, high quality fertiliser for use by farmers and horticulturalists.

The Foods We All Throw Away!

The Stop Food Waste programme has done some fantastic research into the food we all throw away.  Their research highlights that we are all creatures of habit often throw out the same types of food, for the same reasons, on a regular basis.

Stop Food Waste advises that to stop wasting food we first need to become aware of what and how much we throw out. Being aware of this is the first step to reducing the food, and money we waste.  So next time you’re shopping or eating, watch out for these foods especially and you will save twice:

• by buying less food and

• by having less to dispose of

It has been found that the main foods that are regularly thrown out are: