FAQ's

Your Customer ID or account number can be found on a recent invoice or on the labels on your wheelie bins. For help in finding your account number please click http://www.cleanireland.ie/help_image.php?img=1

Approx 40% by weight of the material in your waste bin is organic waste and can be collected in a Brown Bin Food Waste Scheme. This material will go on for composting or for anaerobic digestion which can create electricity as a by-product.

Basically anything that had lived either plant or animal can be composted. Food waste is not suitable for home composting with the exception of raw peelings. It attracts odours, rodents and other problems. 

Home composting green or garden waste will not attract any unwanted pests, rodents, odours etc. These problems arise when people attempt to home compost food waste. Raw fruit and vegetable peelings are the exception. Food waste either cooked or raw is best disposed of in a brown bin scheme if available.

If you have only a small space then you should only have a small amount of garden waste. Your best solution is probable an aerated home compostor as mentioned above. These provide very good aeration which is the single most important criteria for successful composting.

Composting should not create any unpleasant smells. If you do notice an unpleasant smell then your heap is lacking air. Add more rigid brown material in order to create air passages through the material and this should alleviate the problem and get everything going again.

You can purchase home compostors from any of the Clean Ireland Recycling offices. See contact us for details. From extensive research, Clean Ireland Recycling home compostors are the best on the market as regards value and functionality.

Yes. Each new customer is given a weight allowance of 25kgs per Wet Waste lift. If you exceed that weight then your next bill will increase but likewise if you come in under that weight then your next bill will reduce!