Call for action on illegal dumping in North Cork

The extent to which people are illegally dumping rubbish on country roads was highlighted yesterday when it was revealed that a special team of council workers recovered 2.18 tonnes of rubbish in just 12 days.

Sharon Corcoran, the council’s director of services, said that the team had removed the litter from roadsides in parts of North Cork.

Three special litter-busting teams have been set up to clean up other blackspot areas in the county and Ms Corcoran told a meeting of the local authority’s Northern Division they were removing similar amounts of rubbish.