RTE's "One Day: How Ireland Cleans Up" Summed Up
For anyone that missed RTE's One Day: How Ireland Cleans Up, here are the stats summed up along with an infographic with the highlights.
These stats are per DAY!
Across Ireland
44,000 workers clean up after us
200,000 bins collected across Ireland
22,0000 platsic bottles/day
1,5 million cans/day
4,000 tonnes of waste
€1 million in clean up costs
Ringsend Incinerator in Dublin
Since 2017 incinerator runs 24/7
100 trucks daily (Dublin only)
1,800 tons of waste
Powers 80,000 homes
Killeens Dublin Waste Plant
300 trucks commercial, black bin and skip waste sorted per day
400 tonnes processed/day
1 million nappies
500,000 disposable cups
€3 million worth of food/day
30 truck loads arrive for sorting recycling
30% of green bin waste is not recyclable
120 tonnes sorted through /day
Tallaght River Cleanup
A volunteer group cleans trash from the river to the tune of:
74 bags
2,200 glass bottles
1,400 cans
Irish water treatment plant (sewage)
430 million litres of water flushed
2 tonne wet wipes, nappies and pads removed from blocked sewers and pipes
1 long weekend at a music festival
19,000 bags of rubbish
Chewing gum cleanup
900,000 pieces of gum /day chewed
Unknown how much gets thrown onto the ground
