Sustainable Skerries
For a Sustainable and Resilient Skerries
On Sunday 8th June 2025, coinciding with payment for Skerries Water-Safety week, Sustainable Skerries hosted its first Sustainable Swim Shop and Repair Café. This event was inspired by a member of...
Did you know that in Ireland, 110,000 tonnes of textiles are discarded every year? (Source: Textiles: National Attitudes & Behaviours Surveys | Environmental Protection Agency.) Re-using unwanted clothing, much of which is...
How proud are Skerries people of Skerries? The answer is, of course: Very. So when Fingal County Council recently nominated us for the Climate Action and Biodiversity Award of the all-island...
This is a report of sorts of the first Skerries Eco Night, 22 November 2022. It has also a list of actions. Join us in doing something – yourself, in your...
Sun 8th May, 10am-1pm, Educate Together National School Just come along – and if you’d like to sell, secure your spot on eventbrite now! Buying and selling pre-loved items is a...
Calling all spring-cleaners! If you’re planning a clear-out and hate the thoughts of dumping your once-loved goods, don’t fret. Not only is one person’s trash another person’s treasure… rehoming your pre-loved...
For the last couple of years, you have been collecting your crisp packets and dropping them off in our collection box in SuperValu. Cristina has been sending them to become high-quality...
Reduce. Refuse. Reuse. Recycle. In that order, pleas! The recent Government announcement that soft plastics can now also be put into the recycling bin is great – unless it means we...
Last December, we started collecting crisp packets for recycling… hoping that the box we put up in SuperValu would be full now and again… and we were blown away with the...
Finally – a recycling possibility for crisp packets! Many of us have a packet of crisps every now and then. Sadly, those packets are unrecyclable in our current green bin service,...
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