Clare’s main landfill in Inagh is to close next year.
With income for the Ballyduffbeg Waste Management Facility likely to be around 2 million euro this year, and the next phase of the dump requiring a four million euro investment, elected members unanimously agreed to begin closing the landfill immediately.
Operations will continue until landfill capacity is reached but the main activities in Inagh are likely to end by late 2011, with civic amenity, recycling facilities and small wet waste collection transfers to remain for householders.
Local residents say the facility should never have been built at Inagh due to ongoing odour problems, a view shared by councillors as a bill for future maintenance of the site could cost over 22 million in the next 15 years.
But County Manager Tom Coughlan says keeping the landfill open would have been a more expensive risk
