ENOUGH people to fill Croke Park five times over will take to the highways and byways during April, picking up rubbish recklessly and shamelessly thrown to the four winds.

HOUSEHOLDERS can save the carbon equivalent of 20,000 bags of coal by recycling the packaging from 6.4 million Easter eggs this weekend.

Families were today urged to recycle the 42,000 tonnes of packaging they will discard after eating an estimated 6.4 million Easter eggs.

Irish people are due to eat more than one million kg of chocolate over Easter, equivalent to the weight of more than 300 hippos.

HOUSEHOLDERS are set to recycle 20% more of their Christmas and New Year waste as hefty bin charges deter them from throwing out bottles, tins and paper.

A GLANCE at people coming out of supermarkets these days gives an insight into changing attitudes towards waste: the plastic shopping bag has all but disappeared.

Repak has urged people to recycle Easter egg boxes in the coming weeks.

WE’RE all set for a green Christmas — for the first time we are on course to meet our EU target of recycling half of all packaging produced in the Irish market.

CONSUMERS must act responsibly to ensure the packaging of five million Easter eggs does not end up discarded in landfill sites, it was urged yesterday.

Darrell Crowe, marketing manager with recycling scheme operator Repak, talks to David Clerkin.

DON’T stuff the bin with packaging after filling yourself with chocolate this weekend — recycle it instead.

IN RESPONSE to the letter headlined ‘Rubbish the rich’ (Irish Examiner, Jan 29) advocating the Sinn Fein idea on the imposition of a packaging levy on business, I would like to draw attention to the Waste Management (Packaging) Regulations, 1997.