The Countryside is Watching aims to counteract scourge of littering

A NATIONAL anti-litter initiative called The Countryside is Watching has been launched by the Irish Farmers Association and the farm plastic recycling organisation, Irish Farm Films Producers Group, which have a combined membership of 120,000 farmers and rural dwellers.

IFA deputy president and Countryside Project Team spokesman Eddie Downey said farmers and people living in the countryside are tired of the increasing levels of littering.

Food packaging, household rubbish and empty drink bottles are strewn along roadside verges, gateways into fields and country roads on the outskirts of towns and villages.