Companies and environmental groups are calling on Stormont to usher in a more consistent approach to recycling across Northern Ireland's council areas.
Companies and environmental groups are calling on Stormont to usher in a more consistent approach to recycling across Northern Ireland's council areas.
Enva Director, Barry Phillips, said: "This will save ratepayers and local businesses millions every year." Encirc produces more than 4 billion glass containers each year for leading global brands, filling many of them for retail across the UK and Europe from discarded glass. "We have to import because glass collected from households locally is contaminated during collections by being mixed with other materials in 'co-mingled' bins, which means councils in turn are having to spend millions shipping these materials as far as India and Thailand.
"All the glass collected mixed in wheelie bins is exported due to quality issues, and it appears over 40% is wasted in the sorting process. That could be reduced to 1% if we collected it separately, with everything staying in Northern Ireland for recycling.
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