Waste plan under review

Kildare County Council has begun the process of reviewing the county's Waste Management Plan with a view to updating it for the period 2005-2010.

The Council has commissioned consultants Fehily Timoney & Co to prepare the review, which has a primary objective under the 1996 Waste Management Act and the 1998 Government policy statement Changing our Waysto 'secure the best environmental management of all waste, including preventing and minimising the generation of waste wherever practicable'.

The review process will include the following:

• submissions from public and private sectors (in response to public advertisement)
• data collection
• trends
• scenarios & preliminary assessment
• options assessment
• recommendations & proposed review
• client review
• amendments
• publish proposed review
• submissions from public (statutory)
• finalise review

Brian Byrne.