Trucks to transport waste to Poolbeg plant

Over 100 large trucks will travel daily to supply the Poolbeg incinerator with around 300,000 tonnes of waste a year via the M50 and the Port Tunnel, it has emerged.

Containers will be needed to supply the incinerator every day. Around 40 trucks will have to travel through the city at off-peak hours. The issue has caused much opposition in Dublin’s south inner city.
Most material will be moved from Poolbeg between the off-peak hours of 7.30pm and 10.30pm. Recyclable material will be taken out of the waste at five stations spread throughout the city, before the rest is compacted, baled and transported to Poolbeg by the M50 and Dublin Port Tunnel in the containers.

Dublin City Council intends to apply for planning permission to build a 600,000-tonne incinerator to cope with the capital’s annual waste. In a letter to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in March, the council’s assistant city manager, Matt Twomey stated that the council would be looking for extra waste to burn in the surrounding Dublin area if the 600,000 tonne target was not met.
Poisonous residues will be taken to Germany and Norway to be destroyed at a later date. Those managing the plant will have to make sure that most of the rest of the ash produced will be recycled.
Mr Twomey was not able to give a clear view as to whether an Irish plant would work or whether the ash would have to be exported.

The residues left over from the incineration would be shipped out of Dublin rather than be transported by road.