Community to fight waste facility’s amenity site plan
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.
The court was told that infrastructural deficiencies and poor management resulted in the production of nuisance odours, which were likened to the smell of vomit.
The firm has since invested heavily in plant upgrades. However, EPA figures last year ranked it among the top 10 waste sites in the country for complaints about odours.
Country Clean has now confirmed a related firm, Greener Families Ltd, which has been trading since 2010, has lodged an application for a civic amenity/bring site facility next to the waste plant.
“Throughout Cork county there is a bring centre in most large towns — Mallow, Kanturk, Millstreet, Macroom, Youghal, Bandon, Rossmore,” a Country Clean spokesman said.
“For all the population of Cork City there is only one bring centre, which leads to a lot more illegal dumping around the city. A new state-of-the-art bring centre will massively improve recycling rates and curb illegal dumping significantly.”
A public meeting on the planning application will take place in the Farranree Community Centre at 7pm next Wednesday.
