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Have Your Say on Waste Policy!
The Department of the Environment released its new Draft Statement on Waste Policy on July 15th 2010. VOICE urges you to make use of the public consultation period ending on October 1st, to have your say on how Ireland can better manage its waste. The policy statement is to provide the framework for Ireland to meet, or ideally exceed, EU targets for waste management. The policy also aims to underpin the contribution of the waste management sector to our economic recovery.
You can find the Draft Policy and the form for making a submission, by the deadline of October 1st, on the Department of Environment’s website at http://www.environ.ie/en/Environment/Waste/News/MainBody,23402,en.htm
Only three more signatures needed, can you help?
A massive thank you to everyone who came to the Stop Climate Chaos Mass Lobby in Buswells on the 2nd of June. Thanks to your efforts the number of TDs who have signed our Climate Commitment is now at 80. We only need three more TDs to sign before we have a majority. Please send an email now to TDs in your constituency who haven’t yet signed.
Food Matters leaflet
Download our Food Matters leaflet here: Food Matters PDF
Fluoridation is crude and ineffective treatment, declare top European scientists
Press release, Dublin July 12th By describing fluoridation as ‘crude and ineffective systemic fluoride treatment without a detectable threshold for dental and bone damage’ to prevent dental caries, Europe’s scientific committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) has confirmed the claim of European doctors in June 2009. They stated that fluoridation is medical treatment and therefore should be subject to medicinal risk assessment, as has been demanded of the European Commission by MEPs and European Parliament committees for years.