{"id":502564,"date":"2026-06-16T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502564\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:47:13","slug":"leitrim-confirmed-as-lowest-performing-county-for-e-waste-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502564\/","title":{"rendered":"Leitrim confirmed as lowest performing county for e-waste recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counties in the Shannonside region recycled on average, 7.8kg of electronic and electrical waste per person last year.<\/p>\n<p>The figures form part of Waste Electrical &amp; Electronic Equipment Ireland&#8217;s annual report.<\/p>\n<p>Leitrim was the worst performing county for electronic and electrical waste recycling last year.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals each recycled only 4 kilograms of waste items, well below the nationally average of 9 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>Roscommon and Longford, by contrast exceeded the national average.<\/p>\n<p>Longford people recycled 9.5 kilograms while Roscommon recorded a total of 10.1 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>The reports showed that close to 39,000 tonnes of e-waste were collected nationwide last year with 21.1 million e-waste items saved from landfill in 2025 &#8211; the most ever since WEEE began collecting e-waste 20 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Counties in the Shannonside region recycled on average, 7.8kg of electronic and electrical waste per person last year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-502564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}