287,000 tonnes of uncollected waste ‘unaccounted for’

THE State cannot account for an estimated 287,000 tonnes of household rubbish which went uncollected by local authorities in 2003.

Wed, 05 Jan, 2005 - 00:00
Paul O’Brien

Neither the Department of the Environment nor the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knows for sure what happened to it.

“It’s hard to know,” said EPA programme manager Dr Gerry Byrne.

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