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Disposing of garbage.

  • 03-03-2012 9:59am
    #1
    osarusan
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    Hi all,

    Back in Limerick for a 3-week break, and staying in the house of a friend of a friend. We're accumulating the typical family garbage of uneaten food, plastic bottles, tin cans and so on, but don't have a wheelie bin or any company to collect it

    I'm wondering where I can take these things to be disposed of (I'll have to pay, I presume).


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  • #2
    Hooked
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    http://www.bigbin.ie/new_locations.html

    I use the one in roxboro. Opposite the cop shop. Get your ticket in bennets garage shop. Fiver a pop! Enter code, fill the drum. Takes 2 medium black bags.

    I get almost the entire contents of my wheelie bin in! There's a nack to it.

    www.bigbin.ie


  • #3
    phog
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    As I have a recycling bin at home I'm not sure but I think there are free recycling banks for the plastic bottles and food cans like the bottle banks. Even if you have to hoard them and bring them to Mungret recycling centre at the end of your stay it might be cheaper to try and recycle these than use the "bigbin" and then just use the "bigbin" for non-recyclable material.


  • #4
    liammur
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    osarusan wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Back in Limerick for a 3-week break, and staying in the house of a friend of a friend. We're accumulating the typical family garbage of uneaten food, plastic bottles, tin cans and so on, but don't have a wheelie bin or any company to collect it

    I'm wondering where I can take these things to be disposed of (I'll have to pay, I presume).

    Mungret, big recycling facility out there. €5 for a car load.


  • #5
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,672 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Thanks all.

    Also, as we live in Japan, we're very careful (even now in Limerick) to separate our plastics from burnables - stuff like plastic milk cartons, the bags from carrots or potatoes, or plastic biscuit wrappers.

    I'm wondering though, if there is any point to doing this, as from the recycling bins I've seen, you can put glass in there, and plastic bottles, but not general plastics.

    Are plastics just mixed in with burnables in the end, even if we separate them originally? If not, where can I go to get the plastics recycled?


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