Councillors angry at plan to privatise recycling centres

Cork’s county manager and elected members are at odds over whether local authority-run recycling centres should be privatised.

County manager Martin Riordan said yesterday that many of the county’s 11 = Civic Amenity Centres were uneconomic and may have to be taken over by the private sector.

Some months ago, he said the council would test the waters to see if private companies would be interested in running the sites.