Coastal litter caused by drinks containers has halved in one year, but macro and micro debris is still plentiful around the Irish coastline.

The seemingly unsolvable problem of communal bin storage chaos in apartment blocks is being tackled by Kildare start-up Accessgreen with an innovative solution which combines technology with education.

An in-depth study of our coasts and waterways shows just 16% are clean.

Cigarette butts now make up more than half of all our litter.

77% of the 40 towns and cities assessed by An Taisce have been found to be clean.

A new waste management report has found that less than half of all litter fines issued by local authorities in the last five years have been paid.

More than half of litter fines handed out in Dublin in the last five years have not been paid.

A senior Cork County Council official has warned that it intends to capture people dumping litter at civic amenity sites/bring sites on CCTV and prosecute them.

The results of the Irish Business Against Litter summer survey shows Fermoy in Cork was the cleanest of the 40 towns and cities surveyed.

It seems many people still don’t regard throwing a cigarette butt onto the street, or out a car window, as littering.

Clare businessman Eugene Garrihy has criticised the results of a new survey that has labelled Doolin a “litter blackspot."

Almost half of Ireland’s waterways are littered, with landmark areas of Cork Harbour and a popular tourist spot on the Wild Atlantic Way labelled litter blackspots, a new survey has found.

Cork City faces a potential €250,000 bill for the clean-up of a notorious illegal dump site — again.

A giant man-made octopus has arrived just in time for the SeaFoodRocks Festival in Clogherhead, Co.Louth.

Several areas of beauty across the country have been left blighted by litter as people take to beaches and parks to enjoy the hot weather.

"Humanity is doomed if we continue like this," claimed a disgusted Laytown walker after large swathes of the Meath beach was left covered in litter by sun-lovers yesterday evening.

A deposit return scheme would have little impact on total litter in Ireland — a conclusion supported by litter surveys undertaken in countries which have a deposit return scheme.

Wander down Dublin’s Grafton Street after a decent stretch of good weather and one can only be struck by the filthy stains — many caused by poorly maintained delivery vans — evident across the recently remodelled pavements.

As a society we have long struggled to accept that we are responsible for the waste, of any kind, we generate.

Despite a significant decline in the number of smokers in recent years, cigarette butts still make up more than half of the litter on our streets.

It’s almost a year since a seaside community pleaded for help to tackle a tsunami of litter.

The Government has given almost €900,000 to councils around the country to tackle litter, graffiti, and dog fouling.

Ireland has a culture of thinking that people will clean up after us, a Green Party Councillor has said.

Famed for its lakes and high peaks, scenic Kerry county has an unwanted mountain — of litter. Over 220 tonnes of general litter and household waste was fly-tipped on roadsides, and at bottle banks, in the country’s top tourist county last year.

Cork County Council officials have been told that drones and extra covert cameras should be deployed in the growing battle against illegal dumping.

Drones are to be used to snare people engaged in illegal dumping at blackspots.

A local authority is embracing cutting-edge technology in its battle against fly-tipping and illegal dumping.

A survey by Irish Business Against Litter found improvements overall.

The number of incendents of dumping is on the increase in Ireland, a business group has warned.