1,500 tonnes of tyres left for recyling in big farm clean-up

Pictured in Athenry Mart last Saturday where over 1500 tonnes of used tyres were collected from 800 farmers in the region as part of an IFA led campaign for funding from the Dept. of the Environment were: Pat Murphy, IFA lobby Committee; Robert Murphy, Bord na Mona AES; Thomas Cooney, National Chairman IFA Environment Committee; Anne Mitchell, Galway IFA County Chairperson; Padraic Divilly, IFA lobby committee; Liam Maloney, CEO IFFPG and Bertie Roche Galway IFA Environment Committee.

placeholder image — Pictured in Athenry Mart last Saturday where over 1500 tonnes of used tyres were collected from 800 farmers in the region as part of an IFA led campaign for funding from the Dept. of the Environment were: Pat Murphy, IFA lobby Committee; Robert Murphy, Bord na Mona AES; Thomas Cooney, National Chairman IFA Environment Committee; Anne Mitchell, Galway IFA County Chairperson; Padraic Divilly, IFA lobby committee; Liam Maloney, CEO IFFPG and Bertie Roche Galway IFA Environment Committee.

AN estimated 1,500 tonnes of unwanted tyres on Galway farms were collected for recycling on Saturday last in Athenry Mart as part of a nationwide scheme subsidised by the Dept. of the Environment.

Over 800 farmers availed of the chance to dispose of the waste tyres in what was described as ‘a flat out’ day at Athenry Mart with the tyres loaded onto a series of container artics for recycling.

Galway IFA Environmental Committee Chairman, Bertie Roche, told the Farming Tribune that the collection day was ‘a fantastic success’ and showed the willingness of the farming community to embrace environmentally friendly actions.

“We had been pressing for some time for such a scheme to be introduced and although there was a small charge per tonne [€15] involved, it was greatly reduced as compared to what the commercial rate [€160] would be.

“We felt that there were many farmers spread across the region who had waste tyres in their yards and fields, as many of them would have switched from pit silage to wraps over recent years,” said Bertie Roche.

He said that next year, the hope was that the scheme could be continued with, catering for regions that didn’t have a collection centre convenient to them this time around.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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