Pay-by-lift customers of Country Clean will have to pay considerably more to have their refuse collected after the waste collection company hiked the costs of its pay-by-lift system.

Local authorities have warned of a surge in fly-tipping and illegal dumping following the introduction of controversial pay-by-weight bin charges next month.

Tenders will be sought for the future use of a now-mothballed €48 million super dump in Co Cork.

Waste firm Country Clean has outlined plans to develop an airtight storage facility at its contentious waste depot on the northside of Cork City.

Pledge as Cork Council advised to ‘write off’ €1.5m as uncollectable

Residents have described the €12,000 fine imposed on a waste firm for multiple breaches of the waste licence at its Cork City depot as nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

Residents ‘stressed’ by smell of vomit coming from recycling plant

Waste companies show interest in €48m mothballed Bottlehill site

Stubbs Gazette says it won’t be publishing the names of thousands of people who have failed to pay a combined €1.5 million in refuse collection charges owed to Cork County Council.

A private debt collection agency hired by Cork County Council has told the local authority it was unable to collect nearly €1.5m owed by refuse charge defaulters.

The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered an under-fire waste firm to shut down the food waste operation at its Cork City depot.

Pressure is mounting on a waste firm after Cork City Council voted last night to support the relocation of the firm’s 100,000-tonne waste facility to a non-residential area.

Campaigners fighting against a controversial 100,000-tonne waste depot on Cork’s northside yesterday brought their protest to City Hall.

The environment minister has been asked to intervene in a row over the operation of a controversial waste depot in a suburb on Cork’s northside.

A man roaring "God Save the Queen" in Cork told a garda, "Ye arrest me because I am gay and Protestant and from Tipperary."

Residents campaigning against a waste depot got fresh hope last night following confirmation that the authorities are considering new ways of using a mothballed €50m super-dump.

A waste firm boss has agreed to fast-track improvements at a contentious city waste depot, which is being closely monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after breaches of its waste licence.

Residents who blockaded one of Cork city’s largest waste depots plan to ramp up their campaign to get it closed.

A community has threatened to bring Cork city’s bin collection system to a halt in a row over the management of a large waste depot.

A takeover deal has saved more than half the jobs at a failed waste management company.

Refuse charge defaulters still owe Cork County Council over €3m in unpaid bills — despite the local authority employing a private debt collection agency to help recover the arrears.

Cork’s county manager and elected members are at odds over whether local authority-run recycling centres should be privatised.

Cork County Council has appointed a debt collection agency to chase down nearly 7,000 people who owe €1.8m in unpaid refuse collection bills.

Three refuse workers had a lucky escape after their truck hit an icy patch and overturned yesterday.

Household waste from Cork city and county is being shipped out of Cork Port for incineration in the Netherlands and Sweden, where its used to generate electricity.

More than 13,000 householders face legal action if they do not pay €3.2m in outstanding refuse debts to Cork County Council.

FORMER customers of Cork County Council’s refuse service – which was recently sold to a private company – owe more than €2 million in arrears, it has been revealed.

TWO multi-million euro recycling centres will open in North Cork next month, although one will not be permitted to receive household waste because of a Bord Pleanála directive.