(Eco Eye s1/e5)
The Big Picture
Around the country, more than 150,000 homes get their drinking water from Group Water Schemes fed by wells, groundwater springs, lakes or water from their local authority. Nearly half of these are polluted and the EU is threatening legal action over the appalling state of them. This item investigates [...]
Posts Tagged ‘composting’
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Episode 05
Episode 03
(Eco Eye s1/e3)
The Big Picture
This item investigates rural water quality and how it is under threat from septic tank pollution. Septic tanks are now used by one and a quarter million rural homes around Ireland but they are probably the most basic and least effective technology that deals with wastewater and raw sewage on-site because [...]
Episode 03
(Eco Eye s4/e3)
Environmental Education in Schools: Our environment is very important to us but especially for our children and their future. It affects all of us in our everyday lives, and our schools offer great opportunities to inform children and encourage actions that can improve our environment in our local communities. The Green Schools Programme [...]
Episode 01
(Eco Eye s4/e1)
Household Waste Recycling: We explore peoples attitudes to recycling in Ireland. We’re still behind but are catching up with our European neighbours, however, with increasing affluence we’re generating more and more waste. We are recycling more but most of this material is processed abroad (other than glass to Fermanagh). There is much potential [...]
Episode 06
Eco Eye (s5/e6)
Eco Tourism
Duncan travels to the Slieve Bloom region to look at the possibility of Eco Tourism in the midlands region. He meets Christina Byrne from the Slieve Bloom Rural Development Society and they discuss what Eco Tourism has to offer, and in particular what the Slieve Bloom region has to offer tourists. [...]