ESRI at odds with department over waste review

THE ESRI has found itself on a collision course with the Department of the Environment after the think-tank described the department’s waste management review as “flawed,” adding that it failed to create jobs, enhance competitiveness and meet EU Landfill Directive targets.

In response, the department said the ESRI report, commissioned by Dublin City Council, contains a “number of errors which would have a significant bearing on its main recommendations”.

The council is already at loggerheads with Environment Minister John Gormley over its planned 600,000-tonne incinerator at Poolbeg, which the department says is too big.