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LAST UPDATE | 18 Apr
(Video courtesy of Susan Watters/X showing the Meath fire)
FIRE SERVICES BATTLED major fires at waste facilities in Cork and Meath overnight.
The first was at a Thorntons Recycling facility in Dunboyne Industrial Estate, Co Meath, which was reported at around 10pm last night.
Units from Meath County Council Fire and Rescue Service attended the fire, which has now been brought under control.
No injuries were reported, and gardaí said foul play is not suspected at this time.
Thorntons describes the facility as mainly handling dry mixed recyclables.
Skip hire
At midnight, authorities in Cork were alerted to a fire at what is reported to be a skip hire company outside Midleton.
“Six appliances from Midleton and Cobh Fire Brigades attended the incident, four units from Midleton and two from Cobh,” a statement from Cork County Council read.
“The fire was brought under control at approximately 4am. There are no reported injuries. Weather conditions will reduce the impacts of smoke in the vicinity with rainfall likely to continue throughout the day.”
The council advised locals to stay away from the facility, and that diversions remain in place.
Gardaí said the scene is preserved pending technical examination.
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If there was a power plant with the correct type of filtration stacks that burnt that type of waste then it would have produced a good amount of electricity
@Andy Preneur: Agreed, incinerate, filter, clean and remote heat homes or businesses nearby.
Better, allow home incinerators with respective filters and catalysts. Cut out the middleman.
Wasn’t there a fire in Mayo also recently?
@Andy Preneur: there are, one in near drogheda and one near ringsend beside the old esb plant.
@Athena: It’s the crux of the problem really, we a heaving industry where ‘circular economy’ means shipping cardboard all around the world once it’s sorted. Really the innovations and solutions should either be at ‘point of sale’ (never happen as gov to spineless) or in the home, where ideas like this could be gamechangers imo, we already see indoor composters, etc.
@Andy Preneur:
2 different locations ? same day ?
what are they planning to do ? more regulation ?
is it a criminal act ?
3 fires at 3 separate waste companies… it’s like the Sopranos.
@Jack: lithium battery from Ericsson most likely.
@Galway Carpenter:a chemical reaction in wet paper.
Batteries in the recycling bin again, no doubt.
nice footage Sarah, Like a Lynch movie!
@Thesaltyurchin: Susan.
@Ben F: Susan Watters… yes apologies.
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