Report prompts calls to halt incinerator

WASTE collection operators have called for an immediate stoppage to all works on the controversial incinerator at Poolbeg in Dublin after the Economic and Social Research Institute admitted its recentreport on waste management policy contained some errors.

The ESRI published areport entitled An Economic Approach to Municipal Waste Management Policy in Ireland last week, which was critical of a different waste policy favoured by the Minister for the Environment and Green Party leader John Gormley.

The report, commissioned by Dublin City Council at a cost of almost €125,000, has been criticised in turn by a number of environmental experts and economists accusing theESRI of being biased in favour of incineration.