Judie Russell

Don't Waste Our Future is a society podcast hosted by Judie Russell. It has 3 episodes, with the latest published March 2019.

Ireland is among the highest waste producers in Europe per person. We’re a small nation now with but our population is growing as fast as our appetite for consumerism. So we’re going to have to understand and decide how we are going to manage it all. Otherwise, the big decisions could be taken out of our hands.In 1995, over 90% of Irish household waste went to landfills. Evidently, this led to our landfills reaching capacity, And, around the same time, the European Union started to crack down on this method of waste disposal due to the high volume of emissions that landfills produce. So, we then relied on exporting our waste, and in 2016 China was taking 95% of our plastic waste. Then in 2018, China closed the doors. In the meantime, Ireland's first Commercial incinerator for household waste begin its operations at Indaver's County Meath site in 2011. Then 6 years later in 2017, a second incinerator began it's operations in Dublin and is owned by Covanta.Indaver, a privately-owned Belg

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