Companies responsible for some of the best known brands have been urged to do more to prevent littering following a survey of rubbish picked up in Britain.

The world must do more to cope with the drastic rise in electronic waste, according to a UN study published last week.

A waste disposal company and its director have been fined a total of €60,000 for illegal dumping at a number of sites in Co Wicklow in 2001.

Dublin City Council provides a rubbish and waste collection service to city residents.

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.

Illegal dumping in a cul-de-sac in a city suburb has turned it into, arguably, the capital's filthiest area.

A judgment will be given next week on an EPA application for an injunction preventing A1 Waste from disposing waste at a landfill in Kerdiffstown, Naas, Co Kildare.

Waste contracts worth tens of millions of euro are to be offered to private landfill operators by the four Dublin local authorities when the last Dublin regional landfill closes at the end of this year.

The governmnet has formally backed Minister for the Environment John Gormley’s stance on incineration, saying the Green Party leader has its full confidence to develop proposals on waste management.

The competition watchdog is to launch a formal investigation into arrangements for the €350m Poolbeg incinerator plant, The Irish Independent has learned.