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New Recycling Charges
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Cllr. Linehan Foley, speaking at the february meeting of the Youghal Town Council, said the new €3 gate fee at the civic amenity site was unfair and counter productive. She said it would exacerbate illegal dumping, whereas the original concept of free recycling was to educate and encourage responsible waste disposal. Report Christy Parker
The Town Manager said Cork County Council provides both residential and recycling services. She said the costs are extremely high, with the Council providing facilities for the authority’s customers and non-customers. She highlighted glass disposal as one example of this. Recyclable material had the to be taken away, which incurred further cost. Cllr Hennessy said a flat fee should replace the ‘pay-by-weight’ system. She said an annual €400 or six-monthly €200 charge would encourage people to avail of Cork County Council’s services instead of private firms. Ms Power said the County Council will soon undertake a comprehensive review of waste management policy and meanwhile is offering an introductory of €250 per annum for new customers. When told by Cllr Hennessy that this isn’t very wel advertised, she said leaflets will be published. ‘We are the owners of our own rubbish and we have to pay to dispose of it,’ she concluded.
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It’s not so much the €3 gate fee that annoys me that much, its the fact that we already pay a PRF fee (Producer Recycling Fee) on electrical goods that we buy and are now being charged for access to the civic amenity site to dispose of an item we have already paid for to be disposed of? Is this like double taxation?
Tesco I believe are removing the very last (free) recycling facility at the end of February. Fly tipping/rubbish dumping in the town of Youghal is getting out of hand, I see it myself along the New Line road, every Monday morning without fail there are at least 2 black refuse sacks of domestic rubbish strewn accross the road and on to the ditches, its disgusting!
It will only be a matter of time before we’ll see more and more of this behaviour.