Caroline O’Doherty: When it comes to our bins, we’re focusing on the wrong stuff
A worker checks cubes of compressed plastic bottles at a recycling facility in Dublin. Photo: RollingNews.ie
While waste companies were working to put out public relations fires over bin lorry cameras this week, a real-life blaze was burning at a waste disposal facility in north Dublin.
The cause is under investigation, but the minds of experts in the waste industry instantly went to batteries.