Government waste strategy in total disarray - SF TD
The Government's waste management strategy is in total disarray, according
to Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. Deputy Ó Caoláin was responding to
the decision of Galway Corporation to reject incineration.
Deputy Ó Caoláin and his five Sinn Féin colleagues on Monaghan County
Council last week secured significant amendments to the Draft Waste
Management Plan for the North-East Region, incorporating Cavan, Louth,
Meath and Monaghan. Sinn Féin amendments adopted by the Council include a
requirement for local authorities to collect segregated waste from ALL
households in the region. The original plan provided for collection only
from households in towns of over 500 population.
Welcoming the Galway decision, Deputy O Caoláin said:
``The key amendments to the plan for the North-East proposed by Sinn Féin
and adopted by Monaghan County Council expose the inadequacy of the
government's waste management strategy. The extension of door-to-door
collection of segregated waste to all homes points the way to a better Plan
which will reduce, reuse and recycle waste. Such a Plan would not rely on
incinerators to which we are opposed.
``It is clear from all these developments that the Government's waste
management strategy is in total disarray. Their plan to build a network of
incinerators throughout the 26 Counties is meeting a wall of public
opposition. It is time for the government to go back to the drawing board
and to heed the words of the EU Director of Waste Management Ludwig Kramer
who said at a Conference in June of last year: `Those countries which are
in the process of drafting their planning should not base it upon
incineration.'''
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