Coillte spending significantly on dealing with unlawful dumping

Coillte’s Limerick-based spokesman Brendan Lally has said that his firm was bearing the brunt of illegal dumping.

He said that in 2005, the company spent E20,000 on cleaning up illegal dumping. Illegal dumping in the North Tipperary woodlands was costing the State forestry firm in clean-up costs.
Mr Lally said that up to four old cars a week are being left abandoned on Coillte lands in Tipperary. Foresters are left to deal with tidying bags of rubbish and dead livestock in its woodlands.

The unlawful dumping of asbestos is something else which the company has had to deal with. This has been connected with causing fatal forms of lung cancer in humans.