A museum in Dublin city centre is running a new campaign to clear the plastic paddies from the city after tomorrow’s festivities.
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is running an amnesty programme for all your green plastic tat right across the weekend.
If you have novelty green #StPatricksDay plastic or costumes you won't be using after this weekend, please don't let it go to landfill.
Bring it to us at @chqdublin and we'll make sure it's not wasted.
We're donating it all to @ReCreateIreland who will repurpose it for reuse. pic.twitter.com/WR2KHtthVk— EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum (@EPICMuseumCHQ) March 16, 2019
You can trade in your leprechaun hats and shamrock shoes for free entry to the museum – and ensure they are disposed of responsibly.
The novelty materials will be donated to ReCreate Ireland – a social enterprise that collects unwanted and surplus materials and makes them accessible and affordable to all sectors of the community.
The charity said the novelty greens can be re-used for all sorts of arts, crafts and creative projects in schools and community centres around the country.
EPIC spokesperson Darragh Doyle said the museum wants to help fight the plastic crisis.
"We are inviting anybody who has St Patrick's Day plastic that they have bought that they don't need anymore to come down to EPIC museum," he said.
"We are working with social enterprise ReCreate Ireland who will re-purpose all of the donated plastic and hats and beards and glasses and everything for re-use by community groups that will possibly end up in the parade next year," he said.
"So it is a win win for everybody."
Delighted to give them a new home ☺️ https://t.co/7XDGumBQxM
— ReCreate Ireland (@ReCreateIreland) March 15, 2019
EPIC tells the story of the men and women who left Ireland and made waves around the world.
By telling the story of the Irish inventors, writers, musicians, architects and scientists that changed the course of history the museum wants to offer a glimpse of what it really means to be Irish this St Patrick’s Day.
