Waste plan ‘targets cannot be acheived’

A FIVE-YEAR waste management plan for a region covering Limerick (city and county), Clare and Kerry, launched yesterday, contains incineration targets, which the compilers of the plan admit cannot be achieved.

Waste plan ‘targets cannot be acheived’

The Draft Replacement Waste Management Plan for the region 2005 to 2010 sets out an objective of thermally treating (incinerating) 41% of waste.

But during a question and answer session at the plan launch in Limerick, Tom Enright, director of services with Limerick County Council said there would not be thermal treatment in region in the next five years, the period covered by the plan.

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