Close to 1,200 litres of toxic sludge has been found north of Dundalk.
The discovery was made at a lay-by close to the border with Northern Ireland on the M1/N1 motorway.
The sludge is the waste of illegal fuel laundering which is rife in the area. It was found in large plastic cubes in an ‘Ulster Distribution’ trailer left near the exit for Jonesborough and Carrickarnon.
Louth County Council said the trailer was holding 11 1,000 litre cubes of waste, as well as four further barrels containing just over 200 litres.
Contractors are set to remove the sludge later today.
