EVEN without the controversial Poolbeg incinerator, Ireland is on track to comply with EU landfill targets, a report claims.

The Irish Waste Management Association (IWMA) says it strongly opposes Government plans to restructure the waste collection market.

LOW landfill levies and the Poolbeg incinerator stalemate are blocking a multi-million euro investment and the creation of hundreds of jobs, waste recycling companies have claimed.

PRIVATE waste operators want a contract for the planned Poolbeg incinerator publicly released after it emerged that a “get out” clause exists between city chiefs and the company behind the waste facility.

An independent review has been ordered into the controversial waste incinerator in south Dublin, the Government confirmed today.

The country’s leading think-tank today revealed it will not be withdrawing a report on a controversial incinerator heavily criticised by opponents of the scheme.

WASTE collection operators have called for an immediate stoppage to all works on the controversial incinerator at Poolbeg in Dublin after the Economic and Social Research Institute admitted its recentreport on waste management policy contained some errors.

Opponents of a controversial incinerator today questioned the independence of a study by a leading think-tank backing the scheme.

The Environment Minister John Gormley tonight vowed to press ahead with plans restricting incineration as the company behind Dublin’s Poolbeg plant intends to begin work next month.

THE Irish Waste Management Association (IWMA) is to work with Government to find a long-term solution to the problem of the collapse of markets for recycled waste.

The Irish Waste Management Association (IWMA), an affiliate of IBEC, welcomed yesterday the publication of the new Market Development Programme for recycled materials but said it believes the Government must also address market inequalities facing private waste operators.

Ireland could be brought to the European Court of Justice in relation to its treatment of public bodies as non-taxable, it emerged today.

Some 230,000 tonnes of household waste is believed to have been disposed of illegally in 2004 when almost a quarter of homes did not have a bin collection service.