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Zero Waste - Responsible production & consumption, a video made by Anna Golden, a 19-year-old student from Barna, has been shortlisted for the UN Climate Change Youth Video competition.

Sinn Féin councillor Gerry Murray wants to know if Mayo County Council has made provisions to fund the aftercare costs of both landfills in Mayo which are due to close soon. Cllr Murray raised the issue at Monday's meeting of Mayo County Council and demanded a report from the council on whether it had built into the charges full disposal costs to waste collectors including aftercare costs, which he said he believed could be up on €750,000 per year for more than 30 years.

A receiver has been appointed to Greenstar, which operates the massive landfill site at Kilconnell near Ballinasloe with a staff of approximately 15.

Fine Gael TD for Mayo, John O'Mahony, has welcomed the decision by the Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, to provide €5 million to support recycling facilities in local authorities. The money will be used for the operation of bring banks and civic amenity facilities.

Ballina electoral area councillor Seamus Weir has called for “fair play” for people in the area of the Rathroeen landfill in accessing the bottle banks this week.

The Brown Bin Service has been rolled out in the towns of Athlone, Mullingar, Kinnegad, and Moate, and accepts food and garden waste (bio-waste).

Members of Kilkenny County Council have this week unanimously approved the motion by the council to further investigate the development of the old Dunmore landfill site as a possible training ground for Kilkenny’s hurling teams.

While the landfill site at Ballydonagh outside Athlone is no longer in operation as a waste management facility as of last week, the council have maintained a facility for members of the public to continue to dispose of household waste directly.

More that 180 incidents of illegal dumping and fly-tipping in Galway were made to a hotline set up by the Environmental Protection Agency over the past four years.

Local councillors have raised concerns over the amount of rubbish going to landfill in Carlow ahead of the introduction of a third bin to manage bio-degradable waste.