The environmental group VOICE has expressed concern at the Dublin Waste Management Strategy's recommendation that the city's waste should be incinerated.
Ms Iva Pocock, the campaign co-ordinator of VOICE, said it was a fallacy to think that incineration was a solution to rocketing waste levels.
"The only intelligent solution to the waste crisis is to reduce levels of waste. However, it is not surprising that a group of engineering consultants would recommend the construction of an incinerator. Building and burning is what they are good at."
She said it appeared the study was not interested in seriously researching waste reduction possibilities, rather concentrating on waste disposal options.
"If so, the study directly contradicts the Government's espousal of waste prevention as the top priority in the so-called waste management hierarchy."
She criticised an article in The Irish Times for painting a "rosy picture of incineration, ignoring the many ecological, health and ethical issues that this archaic technology presents".
The Government and local authorities would be foolish to think that the public will accept an incinerator.
She said that "until the kind of money made available for building superdumps and incinerators is channelled into serious waste reduction, no community will accept the burden of such a monstrosity."