An investigation is under way after a man’s body was found at a waste recycling centre in Dublin this morning.
Gardaí were called to the Panda Recycling Centre in Ballymount at around 6.40am.
The scene has been sealed off for a forensic examination and the State Pathologist carried out an initial examination at the scene.
The man’s body has been removed to the City Morgue for a post-mortem examination.
There does not appear to be any indications at this stage that the man suffered a violent death and gardaí said they are keeping an open mind on the case.
They are trying to establish the man’s identity and where and how he may have gotten into an industrial sized bin.
They suspect the bin was emptied last night for processing at the centre this morning.
Detectives are examining CCTV footage from the waste collection trucks and the recycling centre and the Garda Technical Bureau is carrying out a forensic examination at the scene.
In a separate tragic case, the body of another man was found in similar circumstances at the same recycling centre 11 years ago.
Henryk Piotrowski, 43, who was originally from the Czech Republic, was sleeping rough in Dublin city centre.
An inquest heard that he was alive when the bin he was in was picked up by a lorry and delivered to the facility in Ballymount, on 23 August 2013.
Mr Piotrowski sustained fatal compression injuries caused by the machinery he came into contact with and died of suffocation.
Coroner Dr Myra Cullinane described the manner of Mr Piotrowski’s death as “most tragic” and the jury at his inquest returned an open verdict.
