A WASTE management company that lost its bid to develop a 240,000-tonne incinerator in Cork harbour is to seek the re-opening of the 2009 An Bord Pleanála hearing into the planned project.

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has urged a threefold increase in landfill levies to persuade householders to reduce the amount of rubbish they throw out.

The Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, has dismissed allegations of unfair competition in the waste sector.