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WEEE is anything with a plug normally attached and WEEE Ireland will be making collections from 10.00a.m until 4.00pm, on Saturday 28th of May 2011 from the following Venues:- Town Car Park, Main Square, Templemore and the Mid-Tipperary Mart Yard, Stradavoher, herein Thurles Town.
So here is your chance to bring along your old appliances for recycling. Remember this is a completely FREE service, eliminating the temptation to dump illegally.
Illegal Dumping In Tipperary
 Joe MacGrath, County Manager, North Tipperary County Council. Speaking of illegal dumping, North Tipperary County Council are introducing hidden CCTV cameras at illegal dumping sites, so those of you who demonstrate a total disregard for our beautiful rural countryside and its inhabitants,”Watch your backs“.
In 2011 an already agreed and welcome zero tolerance approach will continue to be taken to illegal dumping. With the purchase of CCTV cameras, CCTV surveillance will come into operation immediately at various illegal dumping sites, including Bring Banks and Recycling Centres, throughout North Tipperary.
Illegal dumping is unsightly, degrading, costly to clean up and can be harmful to children, pets and wildlife. The new mobile cameras will rotate around North Tipperary, to ensure that those individuals who dump rubbish illegally, can be successfully prosecuted.
Note: Leaving or throwing litter in a public place is an offence that can be subject to an on the spot fine of €150 or a maximum fine of €3,000 if you are convicted of a litter offence in the District Court. It should be noted that it is an offence, under the Litter Pollution Act to leave any waste materials including bags of household waste, bottles, plastics, cardboard boxes etc. in the vicinity of bring bank sites. Bring banks are provided for members of the public to recycle glass bottles and aluminium cans. North Tipperary recorded the highest percentage increase in glass tonnage collected, comparing Jan-Sept 2009 to Jan-Sept 2010. This constituted a percentage increase of some 13%.
However, at a minority of bring bank sites, members of the public cannot access the Bring Banks due to dumping. If a bring bank is full then bottles or cans should be brought to another location or return later, when the banks have been emptied.
Speaking recently on this initiative, Mr Joe MacGrath, County Manager, North Tipperary County Council, stated, “Illegal dumping is unnecessary and causes a lot of concern for our countryside and all the wildlife that inhabits it. We are also disappointed that some Bring Sites are being misused in this way as they are important facilities for communities. North Tipperary County Council is trying to encourage people to recycle as much of their waste as possible and reduce the amount going to landfill. We have also had people leaving their recyclables in plastic bags because they are too lazy to empty them into the banks“. He further added, “CCTV has been installed at sites throughout North Tipperary in order to deter illegal dumping and where it does occur North Tipperary County Council will be enforcing the litter legislation to its fullest extent and offenders will be prosecuted. Remember, people found littering are liable to an immediate fine of €150.”
North Tipperary County Council is appealing to the public to be vigilant when it comes to litter and protection of the environment and to contact the Litter Hotline on 1850 250 350 to report incidences of illegal dumping.
This continuing zero tolerance initiative, by North Tipperary County Council, is to be welcomed.
Green Party Politics may have vanished from Irish life, well for the moment, but Thurles Town and Tipperary, as a county, are both fast emerging as Ireland’s leader, when it comes to ‘green‘ business and ecological initiatives.
“Exploring the possibilities of Tipperary becoming an Eco County,” will headline an event to be hosted in Thurles, on Wednesday April 6th (from 5.30pm to 8.30pm) at the Tipperary Institute, by Coláiste Éile, in association with the Tipperary Institute and with Green Works Tipperary.
This workshop will launch a new ‘Tipperary Green Business Network,’ supported by the North Tipperary LEADER Partnership and Tipperary North County Enterprise Board.
Since it opened its doors to students in1996, the Tipperary Institute here in Thurles, has been to the fore in pioneering courses in renewable energy and sustainable rural development.
Over a decade ago, Eco-Tourism was introduced to Tipperary, with Ireland’s first eco-holiday cottage, the Ronga EcoBooley project near Clogheen, in Cahir.
Music courtesy of the late and great Johnny Cash
The Amergin Centre, which is a cross-departmental ‘Centre of excellence,’ bringing together expertise in the fields of environmental science, sustainable development, engineering, physics, electronics and administration for Sustainable Energy Development based at the Institute, is now leading in research on renewable energy with the Tipperary Energy Agency supporting the county in the reduction of CO2 emissions by stimulating and implementing best practice in the field of sustainable energy. The agency is assisting the development of Templederry Community Wind Farm and are also involved in the development of sustainable transport in the county, with projects in Personalised Travel Planning and Eco Driving in Local Authority Vehicles.
The Sustainable Energy in Rural Village Environments (SERVE) project is managed by the North Tipperary County Council and the Tipperary Energy Agency. This pioneering project has made a region in Tipperary a world leader in the implementation of sustainable energy actions and the reduction of energy consumption in rural areas, and could be widely replicable right across the EU.
Continue reading Thurles & Tipperary Pioneering Another Shade Of Green
Acorn Recycling, located close to the village of Littleton, near Thurles, in Co Tipperary, is presently considered one of the most advanced composting facilities of its kind in both Ireland or Britain, with regard to the treatment and recycling of Biological Waste.
The company is now expected to expand its operations considerably further in the coming years, following the granting of a licence from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Environmental Protection Agency, to produce a nutrient-rich compost.
The company just opened their €7 million, state-of-the-art plant last June 2010 and currently employ eight full time staff, in their present operation.
The Companies raw material, for the manufacture of this compost product, is derived from domestic organic waste bin collection and food waste residue. This raw material is treated at 70° Celsius, prior to curing and the scientific process effectively replaces the unwelcome use of landfill as a means of managing and disposing of such organic material, as in the past.
The company presently produces 13,000 tonnes of compost per year and sells this now odourless compost in bulk to customers who can collect directly from the plant, or in some cases the company will also deliver its product within a specified radius of the production plant itself.
This now easily affordable, high-end organic product is particularly suitable for use in horticulture, agriculture, domestic gardens and sports fields.
This news will be seen by environmentalists, nationally, as a welcome step forward in how we manage our Biodegradable Waste, currently coming daily from schools, hotels, canteens, restaurants and other food service outlets for disposal.
 Casino Gambling Architect Mr Brian O’Connell told the third day of An Bord Pleanála’s hearing into the Tipperary Casino proposed for Two Mile Borris that the project “is predicated on the licensing regime” and would depend on the present Government’s decision regarding the upgrading of Casino Laws. “There’s a new economic opportunity within the market for providing conference facilities within a casino hotel, the one wouldn’t proceed without the other” he stated.
However, he confirmed this would not affect the rest of the proposed complex, as the horse-racing aspect of the project is supported by Horse Racing Ireland, which invited expressions of interest for the development of an all-weather track in the Munster region some years ago. Existing tracks in Thurles and Tipperary (Limerick Junction) are expected to close, if this Tipperary Venue now is given the green light.
During questioning by sustainable planning expert and barrister James Nix, representing An Taisce, Mr O’Connell stated that the urban locations of venues such as the O2 in Dublin and the Odyssey Arena in Belfast were “inappropriate“, due to the influx of large numbers of people flooding into an urban setting for a short period of time. This situation now offered “strong argument” for the building of such venues outside existing city locations.
North Tipperary County Council granted planning permission for the project last year but the case was appealed to the board by some local residents and An Taisce who expressed concerns, include the level of traffic generated by this venue. Other concerns include noise, carbon emissions, helicopter use, the distance from public transport and the sustainability of such large-scale development.
However, presently across Europe, cash-broke governments have the impression that their way to reduce widening budget defecates are by taking up online gambling, a source of revenue they once viewed with justifiable distrust. Lot of European countries are currently planning to legalize online gambling and these include Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Denmark and France. Europe is the biggest online gambling market in the world and when this business is properly taxed, it will yield billions of euros to State coffers each year.
Presently large numbers of gamblers are being attracted towards Online Casino’s for the playing of Internet Poker and are moving sharply away from the land based Casino’s, as proposed for Two Mile Borris, Thurles, Co.Tipperary. This is since tax liability, in land based Casino’s is high and most of the offshore Online Casino’s remain out of reach of the dreaded tax collector. European governments are trying to bring this now indistinguishable business into the mainstream, by regulating and taxing them and bringing back worsening finances.
The Council of the European Union last December in their ‘Conclusions on the Framework for Gambling and Betting in the EU Member States,’ reminded us that major financial contributions, in particular from State Lotteries or Lotteries licensed by competent state authorities, play an important role in society, via for example the funding of good charitable causes, as presently with our ‘National Lottery’. People have only, even in the best of times, limited funds for gamboling. Their is now a real fear of the destabilizing of our state sponsored lottery, by allowing small monopolies and private gambling operators to hijack this arena, without considering the well being of all our citizens, particularly under the guise of providing imaginary future employment and at any cost.
It is interesting also to note that those now pushing this agenda are amongst those that benefited greatly from exceptional treatment, doled out during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ era, namely those in the Horse breeding industry, e.g. “covering fee,” which the European Commission have now deemed as an illegal form of state aid.
The hearing concluded yesterday, and a decision is expected by the end of this month.
Councillor John Hogan (Moyne) has stated that the community of Moyne/Templetuohy are very concerned over the future of the Lisheen Mines and of the environment in the locality.
Mr Hogan stated: “I wrote to the C.E.O. of Anglo American, Ms. Cynthia Carroll, expressing the communities concerns over the terrible reputation that Vedanta Resources have in India. Amnesty International has written an in depth report on human rights and serious environment violations carried out by Vedanta Resources. The company also had the Tuticorin Smelter in India closed by the Indian courts. According to the Indian Judges Vedanta Resources violated the company’s operation permissions from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board. In their verdict, Judges said the smelter was emitting noxious air pollution, that the plant’s effluents were hazardous and caused high levels of heavy metals, arsenic and fluorides in the groundwater and that the entire plant site was now “severely polluted”.
Another example of our fears in June 2009 a prestigious World Environmental award the “Golden Peacock” was withdrawn at the last minute after
demonstrators protested about the company’s highly polluting alumina refinery on the land of Kondh tribes in Orissa, India. Government pollution inspectors have commented on the ‘alarming’ and ‘continuous’ seepage of toxic waste from the refinery. Kondh people living near the refinery have told Survival International that they have suffered skin problems after bathing in polluted water, that their crops are choked by dust from the refinery and that cattle have died after drinking from polluted streams.”
Councillor Hogan added: “So far I have received a reply from Mr. Hennie Faul, Chief Executive Officer Zinc with Anglo American. Mr. Faul chose not to answer any of the allegations in connection with Verdanta Resources and instead stated that the costs associated with the Mine closure and rehabilitation plan, as well as the perpetual aftercare of Lisheen Mine are fully secured. This reply from Anglo American has added to the community fears, firstly because they sold us out to a company with issues that Anglo American are not willing to comment on. Also Anglo American are disingenuous in claiming that perpetual aftercare costs of Lisheen are secure when as a stake holder our community has not even entered discussions on the perpetual aftercare.”
Moyne/Templetuohy Community Parish Forum are meeting next Monday night to discuss and decide a future plan of action in relation to these issues.
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