Recycling moves up a gear

The manner in which Irish people have embraced recycling is a notable environmental success story, writes Donal Hickey

Over a third of all household waste is recycled here and we are ranked joint third in Europe for reducing the amount of rubbish being dumped in the old-fashioned way.

We still have some distance to travel to meet EU targets on, for example, recycling batteries and disposing of end-of-life vehicles. However, if incentives such as free-of-charge recycling for the general public continue to be given much further progress can be made.