LIMERICK-BASED company ResourceKraft has teamed up with RTÉ in providing technical advice and solutions for the broadcaster’s latest ecofriendly television production, My Family Aren’t Wasters.

Irish households account for almost a quarter of the energy used in this country and are being encouraged to take steps to reduce this figure.

EIGHT families from across the country have signed up to be the leading lights in a unique environmental project to slash energy consumption in their homes.