Vol. 555 No. 1
299 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the role of incineration technology in the national hazardous waste management plan; and the likely location of incineration waste facilities across the country. [17690/02]
The EPA's national hazardous waste management plan, published in July 2001 identifies a need for a thermal treatment facility, with energy recovery, for hazardous waste to ensure national self-sufficiency in managing hazardous waste which cannot be prevented.
Six regional waste management plans, for the Dublin, the north-east, Connaught, the Midlands, the mid-west and the south-east regions, provide, inter alia, for thermal treatment facilities to recover energy from municipal waste that cannot otherwise be re-used or recycled.
It is open to the private sector to bring forward proposals for thermal treatment facilities on a commercial basis, and current proposals, if progressed, may have implications for the provision of thermal treatment capacity under the regional plans.
