How Cork City Council can move on from its robotrees fiasco

The local authority should apologise for wasting taxpayers' money — and learn to listen to experts when considering matters beyond its own expertise, writes John Sodeau
How Cork City Council can move on from its robotrees fiasco

While it is generally forward-looking to experiment and try new things, 'City Trees' had already been shown to be a total failure at cleansing air of particulates before Cork bought the technology. Picture: Larry Cummins

There has been a lot of misinformation and misconception thrown into the public domain recently regarding the ‘death of the robotrees’.

It’s time to put the record straight. But where to begin?

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