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Pace of government climate policy ‘out of step with worsening conditions’

Friends of the Earth said that while the government’s performance in the areas of nature and transport had improved from last year, there was a decline in performance in energy, climate, water, and buildings

Tipperary-based Trifol secures €3 million EU grant

Company transforming waste plastic into wax will use funds to expand production and develop centre of excellence at the site

Turmec eyes US acquisition as it aims for further expansion in waste recycling sector

Meath company has begun looking for American firms to buy after winning a €30 million Australian contract

Irish firm lands €30m contract to build world’s largest construction waste recycling facility

Turmec, a Meath-based provider of waste processing solutions, said it has won a major new contract to build a state-of-the-art construction waste processing facility in Australia

Brown bins for food waste could get a nationwide rollout

Some 500,000 households around the country do not have a brown bin as part of their waste collection service

Elkstone backs British firm’s unique waste-to-energy technology

Standard Gas plans to bring its carbon negative pyrolysis system to the Irish market after a funding raise of £18 million

Brosnan targets €500m sales with BHSL to build second multinational

The former Kerry Group titan sees huge opportunity in the water and waste solutions sector, and is making inroads with the acquisition of Glan Agua

Beauparc pays more than €20m for Monaghan waste company Exomex

Deal consolidates Beauparc’s status as largest waste management operator in Ireland, with a near 25% market share

Ireland’s waste processing capacity on a ‘knife-edge’

Summer floods have disrupted exports of excess to Europe as the reopening economy generates more waste

Ban sell-by dates on food to reduce waste, says former minister Bruton

Ireland generates 600kg of waste per person annually, 22 per cent more than the EU average

Ireland produces most plastic waste per person in EU

New statistics also show that this country has the fourth-lowest recycling rate of plastics in the European Union

State unable to recover €50 million cost of cleaning up hazardous Naas landfill

The Kerdiffstown landfill contained three million tonnes of household and construction waste which posed a severe threat to the environment