Four hauliers have been ordered by the High Court to end a lorries blockade at the Balleally landfill site in Lusk, Co Dublin.
A number of hauliers have been blockading the entrance to the site since a €30 load charge was imposed last Tuesday on dumping at the landfill.
Mr John Doherty, counsel for Fingal County Council, told Mr Justice Michael Peart the blockade was affecting all waste disposal in the county as Balleally was the only licenced landfill within the local authority area.
Mr Doherty said up to 700 tonnes of waste a day was being turned away from the site.
The council was now having to divert its own refuse freighters to a holding site at Ballyfermot for baling and transfer to Kill in Co Kildare. This was an extremely expensive alternative, he said.
Mr Justice Peart granted the council an injunction restraining Mr Dick Mooney, Mr Patrick Devoy, Mr Paul Wade and Mr Michael McCrory, hauliers based in Lusk, Swords and Rush, and anyone aware of the court ban from blockading the landfill site.