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Tue 09 Sep 2008Electric Picnic fans clean up act as waste recycling is tripled
FESTIVAL-GOERS AT the Electric Picnic exceeded the organisers' expectations by recycling almost 30 per cent of their waste.
It was hoped that a quarter of all material would be recycled. As of yesterday, about 70 tonnes of waste was collected from the site in Stradbally, Co Laois, and 20 tonnes of it was recyclable. The figure last year was just seven tonnes.
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