Waste plant may be first in fast-track plan system

A US waste management company is planning to build a major facility here in the first project of its kind to seek permission under the new fast-track planning procedure for large-scale infrastructure.

The €200 million project would use a technology never before tried in Europe to process 365,000 tonnes of household waste a day at a depleted quarry on the Dublin side of the Dublin-Kildare border.

Project developers, Energy Answers International, reject the term incinerator, describing the facility as a “resource recovery project”. However, their facility would burn waste although using a modified boiler with a system of air flows and grates that allow recoverable materials to escape melting and instead be filtered out for collection.