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Metal stuff in recycling.

  • 02-11-2017 7:02pm
    #1
    Tenigate
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    I have.a few metal items i want rid of but they're not in good enough condition for a charity shop

    a bread bin, 2 pots without lids, and 2 frying pans in v poor condition.

    Except for the pans the items are all steel/metal.

    Can i throw them in the recycling? Or should they go in the general waste?


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  • #2
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,073 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Tenigate wrote:
    Can i throw them in the recycling? Or should they go in the general waste?


    General waste I think


  • #3
    two wheels good
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭two wheels good


    Nooo! No need for them to end up in landfill.

    Your local tip will have a waste metal skip. You might have to pay a couple of euro to access the facility though.
    As a last resort I'd consider the recycling bin in the hope that the recycling company seperates the ferrous metals.


  • #4
    Tenigate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Tenigate


    It might be worth a trip, I have a broken stereo i need to get rid of too.


  • #5
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    Tenigate wrote: »
    It might be worth a trip, I have a broken stereo i need to get rid of too.

    Your broken stereo can be recycled free of charge in a recycling centre, but the metal stuff will incur whatever the gate fee is.


  • #6
    JazzyJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭JazzyJ


    TomOnBoard wrote: »
    Your broken stereo can be recycled free of charge in a recycling centre, but the metal stuff will incur whatever the gate fee is.

    Ballyogan takes metal for free.

    http://www.dlrcoco.ie/sites/default/files/atoms/files/ballyogana4informationsheet.pdf


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  • #7
    shaunr68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭shaunr68


    two wheels good wrote: »
    Nooo! No need for them to end up in landfill.

    Your local tip will have a waste metal skip. You might have to pay a couple of euro to access the facility though.
    I drive a privately owned van. €12 just to visit my local "recycling" centre. Landfill it is then!


  • #8
    jayobray
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭jayobray


    I think that is accepted free in Bray recycling centre


  • #9
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,371 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    TomOnBoard wrote: »
    Your broken stereo can be recycled free of charge in a recycling centre, but the metal stuff will incur whatever the gate fee is.
    Stereo on the back seat, metal in the boot.


  • #10
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    endacl wrote: »
    Stereo on the back seat, metal in the boot.

    Where I go, they have lads who literally live with you while you're unloading if you go in on a no- cost WEEE gate entry. Aaaand they're fierce slow to give a hand with the unloading!! You wouldn't get away with 'smuggling' in any non- WEEE stuff without paying the gate fee!:mad::mad::mad:


  • #11
    Tenigate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Tenigate


    Just an update. Fecked the whole lot in the bin.
    Local recycling centre is €4 in and besides i didn't have weee receipt and wasn't sure what do do with steel. Either way, nothing in it for me.


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  • #12
    Turnipman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Turnipman


    I was wondering the same thing regarding empty biscuit tins. I have a load of IKEA and Cadbury tins which once had biscuits in them and are now just empty tins which I want to dispose of responsibly. They don't fit in the recycling bins for drink or food cans, and I'm damned if I'm going to drive 15 miles to my local council recycling centre to pay to recycle them. The temptation to do something irresponsible with them is rather strong. Surely the vendor (IKEA/Tesco/Supervalu in my case) should be obliged to take them back?


  • #13
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,073 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Turnipman wrote:
    Surely the vendor (IKEA/Tesco/Supervalu in my case) should be obliged to take them back?


    No no no no, 'the polluter pays' is the mantra, remember! I.e. waste is your problem, and you're gonna pay for it!


  • #14
    JazzyJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭JazzyJ


    Tenigate wrote: »
    Just an update. Fecked the whole lot in the bin.
    Local recycling centre is €4 in and besides i didn't have weee receipt and wasn't sure what do do with steel. Either way, nothing in it for me.

    :mad: There's such a discrepancy around the country with what recycling facilities take (and charge for). You'ld think that metal would be something that wouldn't require a fee for.


  • #15
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    JazzyJ wrote: »
    :mad: There's such a discrepancy around the country with what recycling facilities take (and charge for). You'ld think that metal would be something that wouldn't require a fee for.

    Thoroughly agree!!

    Surely a national protocol could/should be agreed and published whereby a public recycling centre in Waterford or Cork works exactly the same as one in Roscommon.


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