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Liberties Recycling Training and Development is a textiles recycling project that aims to provide people affected by drug use with the stability, work experience, skills and confidence needed to move into mainstream employment and/or further training and education all within a supportive work environment. The Project collects used textiles from charity shops, door-to-door collections and textile banks. These are sorted, graded and packed for export to developing countries and for further processing.

Charity Status:

Liberties Recycling Training & Development is a Registered Charity, No. CHY 14553. We are also affiliated members of the national organisation of Muintir na Tire. For further information on Muintir Na Tíre check out their website at www.muintir.ie

Waste Licences:

Our Recycling Facility in the Bluebell Industrial Estate is fully licenced to collect used clothing by the four Dublin Local Authorities. The relevant permits are listed below:

Waste Collection Permit Exemption No: WCPEX-DC-09-06-01
Waste Facility Permit Exemption: (ref; WF-DS-09-0005-01)
The Environmental Protection Agency have determined that Waste Authorisation is not required by Liberties Recycling Training and Development Ltd. in accordance with Article 1(6) of the Waste Management Regulations 2007

	Philip Moloney, the Project Founder and Managing Director, began recycling in the Iveagh Market in Francis St, Dublin 8. He also trained in Drugs work with Coolemine and Merchants Quay Project.
	The closure of the Iveagh market in 1997 ended the tradition of 150 years of providing affordable clothes to the people of the Liberties. This also left many of the trader families unemployed.
	The idea of a community based recycling and training programme emerged out of the need to provide skills for unemployed people from the area. Many of the trainees that initially presented at the project were affected by drug use in their families and neighbourhoods.
	This led to the idea of involving the community and drug treatment sectors in managing the programme. The Project was initially set up under the Merchant's Quay Project in 2000 with 8 trainees.
	By 2002 this had grown to 20 trainees. That year Liberties Recycling Training and Development was established as a fully independent Drugs Project with charitable status with the support of FAS and three Local Drug Task Forces.
	LRTD moved to the Bluebell Industrial Estate from Basin Lane in 2004. The project now caters for 50 trainees and 4 part-time employees. Our ambition is to grow further in terms of the number of people we assist and the services we can offer them..