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OXIGEN PROUD OF ITS GAA LINKS
hen it comes to the vital task of promoting environmental awareness in Louth, nobody is doing more than Oxigen Environmental. A local success story, the national service provider offers a full range of recycling and waste management services throughout the Wee County. It is also proud of its GAA links, as Project Manager and Naomh Fionnbarra midfielder John Doyle explains. Founded in 1988 by Sean Doyle as Wheel Bin Services, and rebranded in 2000 as Oxigen Environmental, the company has established itself as one of the leading recycling and waste management companies in the country. Providing a cost effective and efficient service for the management of waste streams countrywide, Oxigen is dedicated to the diversion of waste from landfill by recycling valuable resources to create closed material life cycles. Oxigen produce secondary raw materials from waste streams and these are reprocessed into new products. This promotes resource efficiency and is an environmental necessity. Oxigen Environmental segregate and recover recyclables such as paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, aluminium & steel cans, wood, textiles, aggregates. Oxigen also produces Solid Recovered Fuels for the Power and Cement industries. The Oxigen Group continues to go from strength to strength by offering a wide range of domestic and commercial waste collection and processing services. The success of the Group is based on the solid foundations and values of a family-run business. Domestic collection services commenced close to home in County Louth and the company has since grown to provide a nationwide service.
Oxigen Environmental currently manages the waste streams of 100,000 customers, operates from 20 locations and employs over 380 people. Oxigen provides waste and recycling collections to all parts of Co. Louth and the North East covering an area from Clones in Co. Monaghan to North County Dublin. This is a two-bin service comprising a black bin for general waste and a green bin for recyclable materials. While domestic collections account
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for a large part of Oxigen’s business, the company also offers commercial bin and skip hire, street cleaning, composting, septic tank cleaning, shredding and data destruction, plastics reprocessing, hazardous waste management, renewable energy generation and WEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) services. In addition, Oxigen operates civic amenity sites throughout the country. These facilities allow the general public to bring their general waste and recyclables to a centrally located site. Civic amenity sites promote recycling and help to increase the amount of waste recycled in Ireland each year. Oxigen has also expanded its online services and is currently offering new customers one free month on their waste collection service when they pay for one year online. That means you are getting 12 months for the price of 11. By booking a skip online, customers will also save 5 per cent. For more details, log onto www.oxigen.ie or Call 1890 694436 for the best prices in your area. Oxigen has strong links with the GAA, having provided sponsorship to a number of clubs over the years. The company’s logo was emblazoned on the Naomh Fionnbarra jersey this year as the mid-Louth outfit qualified for the Junior Football Championship final, only to lose heavily to an impressive Hunterstown Rovers team who subsequently contested the Leinster club final. Managed by former player Martin Crosbie in 2013, the Togher parish side also narrowly missed out on promotion to the Intermediate League but, according to John Doyle, they are focused on making amends in 2014. “Our aim is to bounce back,” the former county player and son of Oxigen founder Sean explains. “Finishing runner-up in the