The new powers will allow for an “intelligence-gathering” system whereby licensed kerbside bin collection companies will pass on the Eircodes of paying customers to authorities. Hugh Coughlan, regional co-ordinator of the Eastern Midlands Regional Waste Office, expects about 80,000 households across Ireland will be identified, “a significant minority who are outside the system”. It is expected that the vast majority of other local authorities will have adopted the same powers by April this year. “These by-laws are an endgame in terms of people who are not participating, not engaged with the system,” Mr Coughlan told The Irish Times. The new powers are to be co-ordinated by the country’s three regional waste authorities as part of a “national enforcement strategy”, he added.

Source: The Irish Times February 04, 2019 03:56 UTC