Rubbish ‘dumped to avoid charges’

PEOPLE are increasingly burning and dumping rubbish in an attempt to avoid expensive refuse charges, a number of Cork county councillor have claimed.

County manager Maurice Moloney was called on to abandon the new pay-by-weight system by some public representatives, who claimed that up to 2,000 customers had been lost to private collectors offering a better service, which included kerbside collections of recyclable material.

Cllr John Mulvihill called the present system “disastrous” and said there were not enough proper bring sites.