Report questions reliance on use of incinerators

A NEW report has questioned the Government’s over-reliance on incinerators to help Ireland meet its EU waste management targets.

Various State authorities failed to consider alternative waste treatment options to the controversial incineration method. And this could impede the Government’s plans to comply with its EU obligations to significantly reduce the amount of waste going to landfill by 2010, the report claims.

The report by British environmental consultants, Eunomia — which was commissioned by Ireland’s largest waste management company, Greenstar — comes just days after some doubt was raised about plans by Indaver Ireland to build two incinerators at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, and Carranstown, Co Meath.