The Waste Reduction Bill banning single-use coffee cups has passed its second stage in the Dáil overnight.

Fianna Fáil is set to support the Green Party's and Labour's Waste Reduction Bill.

Consumer advice with Gráinne McGuinness

Labour leader Brendan Howlin TD, has today announced that the Labour Party will co-sponsor the Green Party’s Waste Reduction Bill, and will debate the legislation on Tuesday.

REFUSE charges. Refuse charges. It depends on how you pronounce it.

Environment Minister Denis Naughten has urged opposition parties to fully support the Government’s pay-by-weight bin charges reforms after claiming some people are using the existing system to put “dead animals” in recycling bins.

Latest: The row over waste could be same as the one over water, according to anti-bin charge campaigners.

Latest: The Dáil has voted for a waste collection pricing “watchdog”, as the row over proposed new bin charges escalated.

There is increasing fear that people will turn to illegal dumping if proposed new bin charges take effect.

A protest is being organised outside City Hall in Dublin against new bin charges.

Plans to phase out flat-rate waste collection fees are delayed once again, and will not come into force until the autumn. However, the 12-month price-freeze agreed with the waste collection industry will expire as planned tomorrow.

The Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said we have been left with no alternative to private operators picking up our bins.

The Government could face a contentious Dáil vote next week on its plans for bin charges.

Households are facing increased bin charges — but no-one can say by how much.

THE political wrangling that surrounds the change in the system of bin charges bears all the hallmarks of another Irish Water fiasco.

Joe Leogue answers to the key questions on the new bin charges.

Householders in Kerry are increasingly hoarding waste in spare rooms, backyards, and attics because they cannot afford refuse charges, a council meeting heard.

Latest: The Green Party wants the Government to stick to a plan to bring in pay-by-weight bin charges, amid reports that they are to be delayed.

Pay-by-lift customers of Country Clean will have to pay considerably more to have their refuse collected after the waste collection company hiked the costs of its pay-by-lift system.

Coillte spends €450k a year cleaning up litter. We meet the contractor who’s out to bust the dumpers. Are bin charges to blame? asks Donal O’Keeffe

Housing and Planning Minister Simon Coveney has said he is "not happy" that one waste collection company is telling customers that they must opt out of the pay-by-weight service.

One of the country’s main waste collection firms has put the onus on householders to opt out of paying by weight — setting a July 31 deadline to do so.

The added domestic pressure of pay-by-weight bin charges arrives on the July 1st. Are you ready to account for every rounded up kilogram of waste you produce? Follow our guide to winkle back every cent possible, lightening your load and the landfill take without over-stuffing the composter.

Gerry Adams has said Fianna Fáil's decision to support the freeze on bin charges for one year, instead of scrapping them, is “reprehensible”.

Housing Minister Simon Coveney says pay-by-weight charges may be frozen longer than the 12-month period agreed with the refuse industry yesterday.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has confirmed to the Dáil that bin charges will be frozen for 12 months.

Latest: A representative group for waste management companies has said they have agreed to freeze bin charges.

Minister Simon Coveney is to bring a final plan to deal with bin charges to the Cabinet this morning.

Housing Minister Simon Coveney has said he will consult the Attorney General's office tonight on measures to protect householders from higher bin charges.

Latest: A small but vocal group of protestors has gathered outside South Dublin County Council where Minister Simon Coveney is meeting councillors.

Sinn Féin says it will bring a motion to the Seanad on Wednesday, which it hopes will annul the legislation for the new pay-by-weight bin charges.

Anti-Austerity Alliance are calling on Minister Simon Coveney to freeze bin charges immediately.

Environment Minister Simon Coveney is seeking legal advice on introducing a mandatory cap on bin charges.

The Social Protection Minister has said it is apparent waste companies are taking advantage of new laws.

The Housing and Local Government Minister Simon Coveney will meet waste collection companies this evening as opposition mounts to a new bin charging regime.

Homeowners look set to escape from threatened bin charge hikes as a suspension of the new bin charge regime appears imminent, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

Local authorities have warned of a surge in fly-tipping and illegal dumping following the introduction of controversial pay-by-weight bin charges next month.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald said the Government will introduce regulations to stop refuse collection companies from hiking bin charges.

Customers face bills in excess of €500 a year to have their bins collected, representing an 80% hike on current rates when the new pay-by- weight charges kick in on July 1.