Louth County Council spent over €300k on diesel sludge clean up this year
Published 22nd Dec 2022, 12:30 GMT
Eight cubes of diesel laundering waste located in November
Louth County Council has spent over €300k on the clean up of diesel sludge dumped in the county up to the end of November, latest figures show.
So far in 2022 there has been 233 intermediate bulk containers (IBCs) of diesel sludge located within Louth, with an associated clean up cost of €306,008.78.
Eight IBC’s were located in the month of November 2022 with a removal and destruction cost of €9,985.23.
The volume of diesel sludge located in Louth this year is an increase on last year, when according to the local authority's management accounts from last January, €225,947.43 was spent on the clean up and disposal of 181 IBC's of diesel sludge.