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Green Business - Latest News

  • 19/07/2010: New Draft Statement of Waste Policy
    The Minister said the draft policy was intended to map the future of waste management for the next decade and beyond.
  • 19/07/2010: Reopening of Public Consultation on Proposed Section 60 Policy Direction on a proposed cap to incineration capacity as a proportion of municipal waste
      to ensure that incineration capacity does not reach a level such that waste is drawn to incineration which could have been dealt with by prevention, reuse, recycling, composting/anaerobic digestion of source segregated biowaste, MBT or other methods higher up the waste hierarchy;   to ensure that the waste hierarchy is complied with in that local authorities, as waste management authorities, do not direct holders of waste to deliver it to lower elements in the waste hierarchy, thereby preventing them acting in support of waste management options at the bottom of the hierarchy;   to ensure that the waste hierarchy is complied with in that local authorities, as waste management authorities, could direct holders of waste to deliver it to higher elements in the waste hierarchy, thereby encouraging them to act in support of waste management options at the top of the hierarchy;    to minimise the air pollution arising from trucks accessing waste facilities in built-up areas;   to ensure appropriate monitoring of air pollution in the vicinity of major waste facilities;   to reduce air soil and water pollution from incineratio.
  • 19/07/2010: Revised bottled water norms introduced
      The National Standards Authority of Ireland ( NSAI), in conjunction with the FSAI (Food Safety Authority of Ireland), has launched a revised standard for bottled (or packaged) water to reflect recent changes in European and national legislation on food hygiene and traceab.
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