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Other Types of Waste
Municipal household waste makes up a relatively small percentage of Ireland s waste As can be seen from the pie chart above Industrial Process Waste at 54 is the primary waste component Of this ...
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Infrastructure
Since 1996 when the Waste Management Act came into force there have been big changes in how waste particularly municipal waste is handled in this country Before then waste was brought directly from ...
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Municipal Waste
The chart above shows the development in municipal waste per capita in Ireland between 2001 and 2010 Generation per capita peaked in 2006 at 794 kg capita By 2010 it had reduced by 20 to 636 kg capita ...
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Waste
Living in the 21st century we extract raw materials and energy from the earth to make all of the things that we use in everyday life Some things are useful for short periods of time while other things ...
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Integration
The environment and its protection are not stand alone issues they are bound up intimately with social and economic issues Some view environmental regulation as a burden on business which increases ...
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Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice
Truly sustainable development demands that the public participate in environmental decision making This need was recognised when world governments met at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and was later ...
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Environment & Health
Environment and health in its broadest sense comprises those aspects of human health disease and injury that are influenced by factors in the environment This includes not only the study of the direct ...
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Key Issues
Earth s resources are finite With over 7 billion people on the planet now and a projection of 9 billion by 2050 we must all learn to live more sustainably and to minimise our resource use Irish people ...
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Environmental Research
The environment is a complex area with many interlinkages As old issues are dealt with new ones emerge Sound policy making must therefore be underpinned by good science so the role of environmental ...
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Groundwater
Some of the rain that falls on Ireland filters through the soil subsoil and rocks and becomes groundwater Much of that water moves slowly underground and remains there for long periods before emerging ...
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