Corranure Recycling Centre is set to reopen
Corranure Recycling Centre is set to reopen next Monday, August 15, but customers will now be charged a fee for waste. The charge will be €3 per car-load of recycling and/or €3 per bag of non-recyclable domestic waste. The same fee applies to Cavan County Council's two other recycling centres in Bailieborough and Ballyconnell. While the recycling centre will reopen, the council has no further update regarding the landfill, which Cavan Better Waste Management Group has been lobbying to close for several years. Opening hours The centre in Corranure will be operated by McElvaney Waste and Recycling, a Monaghan-based company which operates a civic amenity site for Monaghan County Council. The opening hours will be Monday to Friday, 8am-4.30pm; Saturday 8am-12.30pm; closed on Sunday. Materials accepted The range of materials accepted include the following: general household waste; glass - clear, brown, green; cardboard corrugated and grey board; newspapers/magazine; green waste; mattress single; mattress double; mixed paper - office paper, envelopes, books; three piece suite furniture; couch; plastic packaging - clear plastic film, coloured film, plastic carrier bags; car tyres; hard plastic - toys, plastic coat hangers, flower pots, plastic buckets; food tins; timber from private households; aluminium cans; plastic bottles; used engine oil from private use; polystyrene; beverage cartons; gypsum; gas cookers; gas cylinders; clothes and footwear; scrap metal - bicycles, prams; household weee (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment) crts (Computer Recycling Technology) - TVs, computers, small and large items, washing machines, dishwashers, domestic fridges; aerosol cans; small appliance batteries; inkjet cartridges; car and truck batteries; building rubble from private households; fluorescent tubes, household bulbs; paint and paint related items; waste cooking oil; fuel filters; pesticides and herbicides; and mobile phones. Some limits will apply for large items. Landfill While the recycling centre will reopen, the council has no further update regarding the landfill, which Cavan Better Waste Management Group has been lobbying to close for several years. Oxigen Environmental Ltd previously operated Corranure in an agreement with Cavan County Council worth an estimated €1.5m annually to the local authority. In June of this year, Oxigen withdrew from An Bord Pleanála its planning application for the integrated recycling facility just days before oral hearings were scheduled to begin. Cavan County Council has a licence to landfill 45,000 tonnes of waste a year in Corranure. This is approximately half the volume that Oxigen was landfilling at the height of its operations in Cavan.