Central bank urges us to donate excess copper to charity
The Central Bank is urging the public to collect any loose change they have at home, and consider donating it to charity.
The bank says Ireland has far too many one and two cent coins, the majority of which aren't in circulation, and are left unused.
Ireland has issued nearly €2.5 billion in coppers, which works out at around €1,500 per household.
Ronnie O'Toole from the Central Bank says charities will welcome your shrapnel;
"There's a number of charities out there who will happily accept them," he said. "The change for charity campaign have got coin acceptance points in AIB, Bank of Ireland, Penneys, Supervalu and a number of other retailers - they just launched a couple of months ago."
"They'd be delighted to get any coins that you have and put them to good use - they've got some excellent charities they're supporting."
