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Householders who reduce their food waste by 25 per cent could save as much as €60 a month on their bills.

A new regulation coming into effect on Tuesday could help householders in Castlebar and Ballina cut down on the thousands of euros of food that is being binned each year.

The first Loughrea flea market will take place in Temperance Hall in Loughrea from 8pm to 10pm today.

The Environmental Protection Agency is urging everyone in Galway to go ‘Green in 2014’. Over the festive season households will produce more than 65,000 tonnes of used packaging, that is the same weight as 65,000 small family cars! The EPA wants to remind Galway households to start the New Year afresh and ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’ with a visit to your local recycling centre.

Attymass National School scooped this year’s Repak/An Taisce Recycling Primary School of the Year award despite tough competition at the 2013 Repak Recycling Awards which took place in The Westin Dublin last week. Attymass National School is a five teacher school located near Ballina with a total of 60 students. A comprehensive review carried out by the committee highlighted the need to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill through intensive waste minimisation practices and a drive toward recycling and composting. Overall, a 77 per cent reduction in the number of plastic bottles was made, a huge achievement to the school.

New research by safefood for its Cut Food Waste campaign has revealed that 32 per cent of consumers believe ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates on food labels mean the same thing. The research also revealed that 44 per cent of consumers know there is a difference between the two but are unsure which is which.

Ballinrobe Tidy Towns focussed on the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle message during the month of March, encouraging people to minimise the amount of waste they produce.

The European Parliament is seeking to set a target to halve food waste by 2025. At present the EU produces 90 million tonnes of food waste each year and avoidable food waste is leading to mounting costs for consumers and the environment.

The management and staff at Mulranny Park Hotel are celebrating after the hotel received two industry accolades for excellence as a wedding venue and its responsible approach to the environment.

Household waste collected in Mayo County Council area has decreased by 32.1 per cent compared to the 2008 figures, according to the Environmental Protection Agency National Waste Report 2009.