Cork County Council could cut aid to firms over plastics usage

Cork County Council is to examine barring start-up businesses from securing grant-aid unless they take measures to reduce the use of plastics in the workforce.

The local authority wants plastic bottles and other plastic drinking vessels to be cut out due to the increasing threat of plastic to the environmental.

Proposed measures will be discussed by the council’s environment special purposes committee (ESPC), which had been the first in the country to formulate bylaw bans on smoky coal.