PLANS TO open two treatment plants to deal with Dublin’s brown bin waste have been cancelled because the tenders received did not deliver value for money, the capital’s local authorities have said.
The four Dublin local authorities were to set up two composting facilities to cater for the introduction of a region-wide brown bin service for biodegradable waste.
One of the centres was to be at Kilshane Cross, in the Fingal County Council area, and the second was to be at Ballyogan, in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council area.
Both schemes had been licensed by the Environmental Protection Authority and had full planning permission.
Fingal and Dublin City Council have already introduced a brown bin service and their waste is being sent to a plant in Navan, Co Meath, where it is biodegraded and used as a capping material for landfill sites.
Both Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and South Dublin have plans to introduce the service in the near future.
In a statement yesterday, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown said the four Dublin local authorities cancelled the current tender process for the two biological treatment plants because none of the tenders received represented good value for money.
The cost to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown of a 15-year design, build and operate contract for a 20,000 tonne per annum facility did not compare favourably with the costs of nearby composting services contracts, the council said.
