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The four Dublin local authorities have begun an action against
Greyhound Recycling in connection with the collection of green
bins from householders across the Dublin region.
Dublin City Council has served the company with a 'performance
failure notice' on behalf of the four local authorities,
claiming that Greyhound did not fulfil the service requirements
in the contract they won from rival waste company Oxygen more
than a year ago.
If the local authorities can prove their claims, Greyhound
could face fines in relation to each household where the collection
commitments were not met last January. Some homes were left
without a collection for more than a month.
Greyhound, in January 2009, took over the contract to collect
dry recyclable waste from 360,000 homes across the Dublin
region for a three-year period. Although there were problems
initially with collections, these were attributed to a failure
by the previous contractors, Oxygen, to collect bins coming
up to Christmas.
In a report to councillors, Dublin City Council said there
were ongoing issues with Greyhound collections in certain
areas throughout 2009. However, it said the service “disimproved
dramatically” in January 2010.
The council subsequently served the performance failure notice
and is awaiting a response from the company. Fingal, Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown
and South Dublin county councils have all claimed that there
have been problems with the Greyhound collections in their
areas.
In a statement, Greyhound said its service schedule was disrupted
by weather conditions which were “the worst that the country
has experienced in 50 years”.
Customers were notified of delays and rescheduled collection
through the green bin website
and through the media, the company said.
Greyhound Recycling was a founder member of the Irish Waste
Management Association (IWMA), which is opposed to Dublin
City Council’s Poolbeg incinerator.
Source - The Irish Times
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