WE made huge strides in diverting biodegradable waste from landfills last year – with a 19% drop in the amount of food, garden and other organic waste being dumped, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest waste report.

IN your letters column of March 19, under the heading ‘Incineration plan should go in the recycling bin’, you published a letter from Dorothee Krien.

ANTI-INCINERATION groups will protest today at the opening of an oral hearing into plans to burn household waste at a thermal treatment plant in Co Meath.

TANKERS with “high risk” substances will be parked 200 metres from the Maritime Naval College if Ireland’s first toxic waste incinerator gets the go ahead, it emerged yesterday.

BABIES and children are 25 times more exposed to the dangers of dioxins emitted by toxic waste incinerators than adults, a paediatrician warned yesterday.

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will lose all credibility, if it does not withdraw the draft licence which it has granted for the country’s first €93m toxic waste incinerator in County Cork, Green Party TD Dan Boyle said yesterday.