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Tipperary store at forefront of campaign to reduce or eliminate plastic from our lives

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Tipperary shop at forefront of campaign to reduce or eliminate plastic from our lives

Plastic Free July is an annual global movement that encourages people to reduce their plastic consumption. Started in 2011 in Australia, it has since attracted millions of participants, with an estimated 140 million people taking part last year. The ...

29 Jul 2022 at 12:30

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Petition calls on Electric Picnic to address tent pollution

A petition calling on the organisers of Electric Picnic to address the level of plastic pollution at the annual festival has reached almost 500 signatures. It comes after drone footage showing what appears to be the Electric Picnic campsite covered ...

13 Sept 2023 at 15:17

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Gardaí investigating theft of giant ice-cream cone whipped from outside shop in dawn raid

Gardaí in Donegal are investigating the theft of an ice-cream display (plastic cone) from a premises at the Glencar Shopping Centre on Sunday, May 21. The theft was carried out by two males and one female at 6.32am. The two males wore their hoods ...

31 May 2023 at 10:49

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Calls for Tipperary communities to join national conversation on plastics

One of Ireland’s foremost experts on plastic recycling, Professor Mick Morris, is calling for local community groups, families and individuals in Tipperary to take part in a national discussion on changing opinions and behaviours relating to ...

25 Mar 2021 at 09:00

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Tipperary students cutting down on plastic bottle waste at their school

Students at Carrick-on- Suir's Presentation Primary School are slashing their school's plastic waste by 6000 bottles a month by the simple measure of using re-usable water bottles for lunch. The school issued re-usable water bottles to its ...

28 Dec 2018 at 08:45

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Tipperary lady Jenny has a new business to help you reduce your plastic footprint

Tipperary woman, Jenny Brewer created ‘Zero Waste Market Place’ to make sustainable alternatives to single use plastics more accessible for everyone, starting at a local level. ‘Some time last year I watched the Netflix documentary, ‘A ...

31 Jul 2019 at 13:53

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Tipp households urged to cut down on single use plastics

Tipperary households will generate a combined 9,700 tonnes of single-use plastic packaging waste in 2020. To put this in perspective, if this 9,700 tonnes of single-use plastic packaging waste were in the form of just empty 2ltr ...

06 May 2020 at 14:14

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Mars bars given new look

Mars bars have been given a new look as the chocolate bar ditches its traditional plastic wrapper for more environmentally-friendly paper packaging. Mars Incorporated confirmed it has made the switch to recyclable paper ...

28 May 2023 at 14:22

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