A company that has withdrawn a controversial planning application for a waste depot on the edge of Waterford City wants the public to email it with alternative site suggestions.

Residents, businesses, and a third-level college are among the objectors to plans for a waste facility on the edge of Waterford City.

The price of bin collection in Dublin is being hiked from today, due to an increase in landfill levies from €50 to €65 per tonne, in a bid to encourage recycling.

Thousands of households have been put on final warning for refuse collection after failing to register bins.

A Limerick-based developer of information systems for the waste industry has acquired a €1.6m investment in the company.

The ISEQ managed to hold on to gains made in the morning to close up 26.65 at 6,056.60 today.

MORE than 300,000 Dublin city householders did not have their rubbish collected yesterday morning because of a half-day strike by bin collectors.

Dublin City Council have accused Siptu of using their workforce as 'pawns' following the issue of strike notice today.