Hazardous steel mill waste ‘will be gone by November’

ALL hazardous waste stored at the former Irish Ispat steel plant at Haulbowline, Co Cork, will be shipped out to Germany for disposal in November.

Hazardous steel mill waste ‘will be gone by November’

Sharon Corcoran, Cork County Council’s director of infrastructural services, said that the waste is stored at warehouses adjacent to the plant. It is understood that the remaining hazardous waste is primarily chemical, as asbestos was removed last December.

Ms Corcoran said the clean up of the site was substantially completed. She added that negotiations are underway to have all buildings on the island demolished by January and all the scrap steel is being transported to Spain.

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