Chapter 1: What should you know about what goes in your bin?
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So if you had to bet your house on it, would you know for sure what exactly should and should not be going into your bin? When Conor Walsh is here, Secretary of the Irish Waste Management Association. Conor, still a big problem with this, isn't there?
Yes, Clare, there's quite a lot of issues. If you're looking at what not to put in your bins at home, the two reasons, I suppose, one is health and safety, which is a very big one, and the other is recycling. You know, certain things are recyclable, but they're not recyclable in your bins at home. So we would encourage people to go to the right place with the materials.
So if we start with the obvious ones, like batteries, they should never go into any of our bins, should they?
Yeah, absolutely. No batteries. I mean, the lithium ion batteries are particularly dangerous and you get them in vapes as well as in a lot of things. So anything, I mean, we've had so many fires in the waste industry. We've had about eight in the last five years. We could have 16 in the next five years if things don't improve for us.
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Chapter 2: Why are batteries a significant concern for waste management?
So, look, this will all change. There will be new labelling coming in from Europe and it will help. But, you know, we try to make it very simple for people. If it's packaging and if it's clean and dry, roughly dry, you know, it could have some bits of water on it, but...
you know, if it's clean and dry in packaging, put it in your recycling bin and let us figure it out from there because we will either recycle it or if it's non-recyclable, like crisp packets are generally non-recyclable, but we'll sort that out. So I wouldn't worry about that. Put in your crisp bags, put in any packaging that's clean and dry.
We have machinery that will sort out what can be recycled and what can't. And what can't be recycled does make a fuel. You know, we make a fuel out of it. It goes to the cement kilns and the cement kilns use it instead of using coal and pet coke and those fossil fuels.
That's good to know. So as long as it's clean and dry, you'll take it and you'll sort it out for us.
If it's packaging, yes.
Okay. Ashes.
What do you do with ashes? I mean, it's historically a big problem, I suppose, hot ashes starting fires. But I think people generally understand that. And, you know, so look, you know, if it's wood, I have a wood burning stove at home, so I would put the wood ashes out. I'll put them in the garden. We have a vegetable patch that's perfect for that.
If it's coal or turf or a fossil fuel, that's different. You know, that may have contaminants in it. So I wouldn't be using that in the vegetable patch. But leave it out for at least 24 hours. Make sure it's totally cool and then into the general waste bin.
OK, you can do that. Conor, thanks so much. You're always a fountain of information. We always learn something from Conor Walsh from the Irish Waste Management Association. And we will talk to you again.
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