Environment links
Find information about environmental issues.
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Check out the following organisations and website for information on the environment, climate change, environmental campaigns and how you take action on environmental issues.
- Tips from the Environmental Protection Agency on what you can do to make a difference.
- Information on how to make an environmental complaint.
Recycling:
- Repak recycling: www.repak.ie - Repak is Ireland’s voluntary initiative, between industry and the Department of the Environment, designed to meet industry’s producer responsibility obligations under the EU directive on packaging and packaging.
- Irish recycling: www.irishrecycling.com - This website contains a directory and information on recycling and waste management in Ireland.
- WEE Ireland electrical and battery recycling: www.weeeireland.ie - Information on recycling electrical items and batteries.
- Recyclefree electrical and battery recycling: www.recyclefree.ie - Information for consumers on recycling electrical items and batteries.
- Rehab recycle: www.rehabrecycle.ie/default.aspx - This website allows you to search for your nearest bottle bank.
- Recycling appeal: www.recyclingappeal.ie - This organisation collects mobile phones, PDAs and printer cartridges for reuse and recycling. The funds are then used for environmental projects or given to charities.
GM foods:
- GM free foods: www.gmfreeireland.org
Action:
- Friends of the Earth: www.foe.ie
- Sustainability magazine: www.sustainability.ie/magazine.html
- Eco-Unesco Environmental education and youth organisation: www.ecounesco.ie
- Change.ie: www.change.ie
- Stop Climate Change campaign: www.stopclimatechaos.ie
- Leave no trace: www.leavenotraceireland.org
Blogs and forums:
The Environmental Protection Agency’s directory of environmental organisations.
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