‘Squad’ to clean up areas hit by fly-tipping

Cork County Council has deployed a new rapid reaction squad which will clean up areas hit by fly-tipping.

A spokesman for the local authority said that some staff had been redeployed from its waste management services to undertake the task of cleaning areas where illegal littering was a regular problem.

The squad will initially be utilised in a pilot scheme in the East Cork area and if it is successful the project will be expanded to other parts of the county.