Indaver obeys Government plan

IT is the view of Darina Allen and Allan Navratil (The Irish Examiner, August 13) that the Government has failed in its role to be a competent and efficient administrator with regard to waste management issues, in particular the requirement to deal with our hazardous waste.

Through the EPA, the Government has carried out a four-year strategy study on hazardous waste. The study got underway in 1997 and two years later a Proposed Hazardous Waste Management Plan was published for public consultation. During the consultation period the agency held public information meetings at six venues around the country and received a significant amount of written and verbal feedback on the plan.

The final plan, published in 2001, included: data and statistics on hazardous waste; recommendations on the prevention of hazardous waste; recovery and disposal options for hazardous waste including economic and environmental costs of the various options.

In its conclusions, the EPA demonstrated that Cork produced 60% of the hazardous waste generated in Ireland and recommended that, “A thermal treatment disposal facility for the management of hazardous waste currently exported for disposal is required if Ireland is to become self sufficient in hazardous waste management”

Indaver’s proposed plant in Ringaskiddy is fully in accordance with the adopted National Hazardous Waste Management Plan for Ireland.

Jackie Keaney,

Communications Manager,

Indaver Ireland,

4, Haddington Terrace,

Dun Laoghaire,

Co Dublin.