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"Help save our beautiful
countryside"
17.06.08
Green Party hits out
at Inishowen recycling charges
THE Green Party's spokesperson in Buncrana has hit
out at the lack of a recycling amenity centre in the
town and the proposed curtailment of services in
Carndonagh.
Sheenagh McMahon who joined the Green Party a year
ago, called yesterday for a "more reasonable"
approach to the proposed suspension of certain
recycling facilities in the region.
Ms. McMahon said: “I cannot see why Buncrana Town
Council has not introduced its own amenity site.
Donegal County Council in their original Waste
Management Plan proposed that 14 sites would be
located in the county but only two have
materialised. |
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"There is a proposal
for a site here but it hasn’t even reached the
planning stage yet. With the growing awareness of
the general public to recycle Buncrana needs an
amenity site."
Ms. Mahon would not be drawn on whether she would
run as a candidate for the Green Party in Buncrana
in next year's local elections.
"That is a matter for the party," she said.
Meanwhile, she said less than half the households in
the county - 21,598 homes - had access to a kerbside
waste collection.
"The collection service is entirely privatised. |
Since January 2005
waste collectors in every local authority area have
been required to offer a weight or volume-based
waste collection service to households. This
pay-by-use system is designed to encourage recycling
and to reduce the costs of those who reduce, reuse
and recycle their waste. But how can our people do
this when we have no civic amenity centre here in
Buncrana and there is not even planning for such a
centre?" she asked.
She said it was entirely unfair and unreasonable to
ask people to pay to recycle when money was being
made on their waste materials all along the
recycling chain.
"People should know how much is being earned from
our recyclables. This would encourage many more
people to recycle and help save our beautiful
countryside here in Inishowen," she added. |
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