Greenstar is Ireland’s leading provider of environmental, waste management and recycling solutions. Employing more than 760 people across 40 sites nationwide, its range of services includes education, research, composting, recycling and the development of facilities for the safe disposal of waste that cannot be reused, recycled or recovered. Greenstar provides waste management solutions to industry, business and domestic customers and in FY2008/9 handled over 1.1 million tonnes of waste, recycling or recovering over 60% of that waste.
Greenstar currently provides household waste and recycling services to over 70,000 household customers in eleven counties nationwide including Cork, Dublin, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, Sligo, Donegal, Kilkenny , Mayo, Limerick and Co. Down.
Greenstar also provides commercial waste services to over 25,000 business customers nationwide and offers a wide range of options tailored to suit customer needs, whether collection and materials recovery, prevention and minimisation, re-use, on-site recycling and composting, consultancy, to audit and reporting.
Greenstar operates materials recovery facilities (MRFs) in Wicklow, Sligo, Cork and Dublin including Millennium Park, the country’s largest and most sophisticated automated recycling facility which can divert between 70-85% of waste from landfill.
Greenstar owns and operates four EPA licensed, state-of-the-art residual landfill facilities at Kilcullen, County Kildare, Knockharley, County Meath, Kilconnell, Co. Galway and Ballynagran, Co. Wicklow. In 2009, Greenstar was awarded the Green Apple Award for excellence in landfill operations for its residual landfill facility at Ballynagran, Co. Wicklow. It has won this award previously for its facility at Kilcullen, Co. Kildare. In 2008, its facility at Ballynagran, Co. Wicklow was also awarded the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM) PEEL Peoples Cup Award for operational excellence of a waste management facility in Ireland UK.
Greenstar has invested over €320M since it was founded in 1999 to develop essential integrated waste management infrastructure and is making further investment in its Dublin operations to produce fossil fuel substitutes (SRF) from waste previously sent for disposal. In 2010, Greenstar will generate enough energy from recycled waste to power 35,000 homes.
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