Indaver in talks to bury 40,000t of ash from proposed incinerator in unused landfill site

Waste management company Indaver is in talks with Cork County Council to bury, in a mothballed landfill site, up to 40,000 tonnes of ash yearly from a proposed €160m controversial incinerator project in Ringaskiddy.

Indaver Ireland’s managing director John Ahern and a senior county council official confirmed talks are continuing over the likely use of a landfill site at Bottlehill.

The unused landfill site, 20km north of Cork city, cost the council €48m to complete. The 100-hectare site has an Environmental Protection Agency licence for five million tonnes of waste over its lifetime. The first built phase has 6.5 acres of landfill cells.