Community to fight waste facility’s amenity site plan

A community which led a campaign against a controversial waste facility is gearing up to fight plans for a civic amenity site in their area.

Public representatives have urged people to lodge objections to the project on a site in the Churchfield industrial estate on the northside of Cork City.

Waste firm Country Clean Recycling, one of Ireland’s largest waste processing companies, controls most of the waste collection routes in Cork, and operates a waste facility in the industrial estate. The company was fined €12,000 in January 2015 after pleading guilty to six breaches of its licences at the facility between May and August of 2014.