Waste firm Country Clean fined €12k for licence breaches

Residents ‘stressed’ by smell of vomit coming from recycling plant

Sickening odours of vomit coming from a recycling plant resulted in a waste company being fined €12,000 for breaches of their licence and ordered to pay almost €10,000 in legal costs to the Environment Protection Agency.

The EPA brought the prosecution against Country Clean Recycling who pleaded guilty yesterday to six breaches at their plant at Churchfield industrial estate at John F Connolly Road in Cork between May and August last.