Council votes to support relocation of waste facility

Pressure is mounting on a waste firm after Cork City Council voted last night to support the relocation of the firm’s 100,000-tonne waste facility to a non-residential area.

Council votes to support relocation of waste facility

The council has also agreed to write to the Environment Minister, and has already written to the Environmental Protection Agency, expressing its concerns about the operation of Country Clean’s waste depot in Churchfield. It has emerged that the EPA is now trying to establish if the facility has reached its tonnage capacity three months earlier than expected.

The news emerged during a council meeting last night which heard cross-party support for two motions calling for the waste facility to be relocated.

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