Incorrect disposal of food waste costs households €700 a year

Each person in Ireland is generating 331kg of waste annually.

This amounts to 1.5m tonnes of waste nationally.

On top of that, 70,000 tonnes of rubbish is “fly-tipped” every year, which is the equivalent of 70,000 one- litre cars being dum- ped on our roadsides annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).