Greyhound to bring court proceedings against rival waste company

The private waste company that took over the household waste collection service for Dublin City Council has brought High Court proceedings against a rival firm which it claimed has been collecting its bins.

Greyhound Recycling and Recovery, which last January commenced collecting household bins in the city, today obtained permission to bring proceedings against Key Waste Management Ltd.

In their proceedings, Greyhound is seeking orders restraining the defendants from using waste bins or receptacles, which are Greyhound's property, for the purpose of the supply of waste collection services to other parties.

Greyhound further seeks an injunction restraining Key Waste from representing or asserting to other parties any entitlement to use what Greyhound claims are its bins for the purpose of the supply of waste collection service to other parties.

It is also seeking an injunction preventing the defendant from placing its trade stickers on what Greyhound's says are its bins.

Permission was granted to Greyhound by Mr Justice Roderick Murphy following an ex-parte hearing today.

The Judge, who accepted the urgency of the claim, made the matter returnable to later this week.

The company had asked the court to grant them injunction on an interim basis, however that application was not granted after the Judge expressed concern over the service of notice of the action to the defendant firm.

The court heard that Greyhound who acquired the bin collection service for more than 144,000 homes in Dublin City Council area wrote to the defendants early last month asking them to stop collecting refuse from their bins or court proceedings would follow.

The defendants wrote back to Greyhound giving an undertaking that they would desist from this practice. Greyhound claims that on Monday they received a letter from the defendant's last Monday stating that the activity complained of had ceased.

However Greyhound claims that investigators employed on its behalf observed on Tuesday, the day after they had received the communication from Key Waste, the defendants collecting waste from what it claims are it's bins in areas in Dublin including Leinster Road and Grosvenor Square in Rathmines.

It was not known how widespread this alleged practise is, however this practise was happening, lawyers for Greyhound told the court.

As a result of what the investigators observed Greyhound decided to bring High Court proceedings against the defendant.