*Stuart Holly, Editor of The Clare Echo and Cllr Mary Howard (FG), Chairperson of Ennis Tidy Towns.
THE Clare Echo has partnered with Ennis Tidy Towns on a campaign to help readers identify what can go into their recycling bin.
This week, we have joined forces with the award-winning Ennis Tidy Towns to deliver a message on the importance of recycling your waste correctly.
Ennis Tidy Towns are encouraging readers to cut out the image on the opposite page and place it on their recycling bin or on their fridge to serve as an educational tool.
Chairperson of Ennis Tidy Towns, Cllr Mary Howard (FG), told The Clare Echo, “This is an updated list of products for recycling and how you recycle them. What wasn’t on the list before were things like soft plastics, which are new. Previously you had to put them in a general bin, so we’re making people aware that you can now include them in the recycling bin.”
She continued, “The idea is to refresh people’s memory as to what can go into their bins. Put them in clean, loose and dry because somebody has to go through them when they come into the processing plant to separate all the recycling material, so that’s really important that you’re being considerate of other people.”
Born and raised in Ennis, Cllr Howard has been a passionate member of Ennis Tidy Towns for 15 years and moved to stress the importance of recycling. “We’re all familiar with landfill and we know that some of these products take 100 years to break down, so they can be reused. If you look around the town you’ll see some of the park benches and outdoor furniture are made from recycled plastics, so that’s just a way of explaining to people that these things have another life and can go on and be used for something else.”
