Increasing abuse of recycling centre may close it down

A SENIOR Cork County Council official has threatened to close an award-winning recycling centre because nappies and other unsavoury items have been dumped at it, and calls have been made to publicly name and shame the culprits.

Mr Jerome O’Sullivan, a senior executive engineer in the council’s West Cork Division, said that the Rosscarbery bring site, which won an environmental award two years ago, had been subjected to serious abuse over the Christmas period.

He warned that if it continued he would have no alternative but to close it down.