Conor Walsh

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437 appearances 5 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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The Claire Byrne Show · Going Green: Recycling and landfill figures for Europe · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Hello, Clare.

yeah good question claire look we're i suppose we're mid-table in in on paper you know but we think we're we think we're doing better than that and we think we can be right up in the top division of that when we look at what happens elsewhere

Yeah, well, it's, I mean, we have a landfill rate of 14%, which is quite good.

We need to get to 10%.

So 14% is good.

Yeah.

And I talk about municipal waste, I suppose, the waste from households and from businesses.

So, you know, that's at 14 percent.

And that would have been, you know, 90 percent 25 years ago.

So we've made a big transition from where we were.

And I suppose when you look at other countries and, you know, our recycling rate is 42 percent on paper.

In reality, I mean, that's three years old, that data.

There's a lot of things have happened in the last three years.

We think we're between 47 and 50 percent now.

So we think that's getting right up to the top league nearly.

The worst countries really are, they're in the place where we were 25 years ago.

So if you take Greece, for example, and I'm just back from a holiday in Corfu, I mean, their landfill rate is 81% and the recycling is just 17%.

And it's hard to understand that, I suppose, because they've had 25 years or 30 years, they've had 30 years of legislation to get to where we are and beyond, and they just haven't.

And I kind of think it's...

It's quite sad, really, because landfill is the worst emitter of carbon in the waste industry.

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