Christmas Recycling (Irish Times article)
 

Some 75,000 tonnes of packaging will be dumped over Christmas, including enough steel to replicate Dublin’s Spire 400 times over, it was claimed today.

Over the Christmas period, Repak estimates people will go through over eight million mince pies, 1.4 million tins of biscuits and four million boxes of chocolates.

They will wash them down with over 19 million bottles of wine, four million bottles of spirits, a 45 million cans of beer and 22 million cans of soft drinks. The amount of alcoholic drinks is enough to fill Lough Derg more than 50 times.

Full story from the Irish Times...here:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...breaking29.htm

Repak:
http://www.repak.ie/