Cork waste burn ban ‘must be dropped’

A junior minister has told Cork County Council it must drop a ban on building industrial-scale incinerators which the local authority has included in a blueprint for future development.

Councillors decided last month to adopt the ban and the decision was formally included in its new county development plan, which will act as a guide to construction in the region until 2021.

Cork has a long history of objecting to industrial-scale incineration. In the early 2000s, locals fought against plans by Indavar to locate incinerators in Ringaskiddy.