(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 ‘pollution’
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Episode 05
Episode 05
(Eco Eye s2/e1)
Genetically Modified Organisms
The vast majority of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are used in contained situations for medical research and pharmaceutical manufacture. Some, however, are released as foodstuffs and this is where the controversy begins. Since 1991, eighteen GM foods have been authorised for release in the EU. Here in Ireland, ongoing field trials [...]
Episode 04
(Eco Eye s2/e4)
Eutrophication
People have been fishing in the waters of Lough Conn in County Mayo for hundreds of years. But one fish they won’t be catching is an ancient species stranded in Lough Conn 12,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age that had survived until only recently. The artic char, a [...]
Episode 04
(Eco Eye s3/e4)
Item 1
Community & Lifestyle
Waste Reduction
With our landfills stuffed to capacity, there’s never been a more urgent need to reduce the waste we generate. At present we’re recycling just one fifth of our domestic household waste.
But reducing and recycling waste has to make financial sense, especially to householders. In recent years, several new waste [...]
Episode 04
(Eco Eye s4/e4)
Household Hazardous Waste: There are so many everyday products that we use in our homes that contain a cocktail of chemicals and that in many ways are hazardous to our health and to the environment. These include cleaning, personal care, DIY, gardening and household goods. Some are poisonous, inflammable and explosive – like [...]