Glass recycling

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coylemj

There are bins for glass recycling all over south Dublin - lots of supermarket car parks (e.g. Dunnes Cornelscourt), opposite Dun Laoghaire fire station on Kill Ave. and the county council recycling centres such as (in the case of DLR) - Ballyogan, Eden Park and Shanganagh.

If you live in Dublin city then maybe you need to ask in the Dublin city forum, this forum is for the south of the county so there may not be many customers of city bin here.

Note that both Panda and Greyhound (who serve the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area) say on their websites that they will not take glass in their green bins but in fact both of them do. So have you actually asked City Bin if they take glass?

Edit: It appears Panda are going to implement the 'no glass in green bins' rule after all. See posts #8 and #9 below. I'm with Greyhound and they haven't notified me of any changes.

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robyntmorton

In my area, there's a small bottle bank. Then we have ones in Tesco Ballybrack, DLR Leisure Loughlinstown, Dunnes Cornelscourt, DLR Recycling Ballyogan, Shanganagh and so on.

We just gather what is going into a box or a bag, and every week or two dump them as we are passing one of them. If you're going in to do your shopping or something, it's not a huge detour to drop them off then.

We're with Panda for bins, and they are getting uppity leafleting each bin about no longer accepting glass. You may get away with it for a while, but they are also threatening fines if they can pin it to particular bins.

robyntmorton

Firhouse is SDCC. List of theirs is here http://www.sdcc.ie/services/recycling-waste/bring-banks

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ted1

robyntmorton wrote: »

In my area, there's a small bottle bank. Then we have ones in Tesco Ballybrack, DLR Leisure Loughlinstown, Dunnes Cornelscourt, DLR Recycling Ballyogan, Shanganagh and so on.

We just gather what is going into a box or a bag, and every week or two dump them as we are passing one of them. If you're going in to do your shopping or something, it's not a huge detour to drop them off then.

We're with Panda for bins, and they are getting uppity leafleting each bin about no longer accepting glass. You may get away with it for a while, but they are also threatening fines if they can pin it to particular bins.

Panda havn't mentioned anything to us about not taking glass, how have they threatened you with a fine?

robyntmorton

It was in the leaflets they were attaching to their green bins, that they will no longer be accepting glass, and will be fining users who do not comply with bin rules. I'll need to dig out the leaflet if I haven't thrown it out to give you the exact wording.

robyntmorton

Here's a couple of news articles mentioning it:

https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/living/2017/0328/863276-contaminated-bins-could-mean-fines-for-homeowners/

http://www.thejournal.ie/poll-recycling-fine-3256219-Feb2017/

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ted1

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They've said nothing to us about no longer taking glass.
Could be that the weight means their losing revenue from black bin

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Tabnabs

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Glass can smash and mix in with other materials (often lodging into cardboard etc.) thereby making the whole lot unusable. Safer for workers and processing to keep them separate.

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Spanish Eyes

Should give us a glass only bin so. We are paying enough for the Black and brown collections as it is.

Del2005

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There must be some place to recycle it if the councils have the bring centres?

IIRC it's used in road construction, or like a lot of our waste shipped to other countries to sort out.

coylemj

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Should give us a glass only bin so. We are paying enough for the Black and brown collections as it is.

When Greenstar started in DLR, they offered us a smaller green bin exclusively for glass at an extra monthly charge. At the time they did not accept glass in the standard green bin which was for paper and recyclable plastics only.

Eventually they told us that they would accept glass in the big green bins so the smaller green bins were taken away from the customers who had them.

When Greyhound took over Greenstar's business in DLR,they sent us a 'welcome' pack which stated that they did not accept glass in the green bins. I queried this and they replied that in fact they would accept glass in the green bins in DLR 'for our current Greenstar customers' and they continue to do so.

coylemj

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Tabnabs wrote: »

Glass can smash and mix in with other materials (often lodging into cardboard etc.) thereby making the whole lot unusable. Safer for workers and processing to keep them separate.

Paper waste gets shredded at which point embedded glass will fall out and using blowers can easily be segregated. See my post above, Greenstar and now Greyhound have been collecting green bins which contain glass in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown for several years now, they obviously have the technology to separate glass from other recyclables or they would have stopped taking glass in the green bins long ago.

damnfinecoffee

According to the Repak website there is a recycling facility somewhere on the site of the public golf course near Stepaside in D18, just off Enniskerry Road. Went there, found nothing. Does anyone know if this got removed? Or is it just really well hidden?