This article is from page 21 of the 2009-11-10 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 21 JPG
THE recession has done more for bringing down Clare’s waste moun- tain than all the education and aware- ness programmes together, members of Clare County Council were told last night.
Director of Services, David Timlin, said that the downfall in consumerism has resulted in a drop of 40 per cent in bring-back waste and a further drop of 20 per cent for other waste.
“The recession has done more for or volume of waste overall that any awareness programme or education,’ he told the meeting of the local au- thority.
He was speaking after Fianna Fail councillor, Pat Hayes had tabled a
motion asking what had been the result of the introduction last year of fees for people to use the county’s re- cycling centres.
But Cllr Hayes said that while it appeared that the revenue expected had been achieved from the charges, it was unclear as to what effects they have had on recycling.
‘Some centres seem to be up – oth- ers seem to be down but it’s hard to know from the information if people have used the centres less.
‘For instance, use of our own centre in Scariff is down while some other centres are up but I don’t believe that people from Scariff have switched to using centres in Ennis or elsewhere. I’d like to get a clearer picture.” he Ko) (em aatomanteronneree