75% of local authorities improved eco performance

Three out of four local authorities improved their environmental performance over the last three years.

The Environmental Protection Agency has said that 23 out of 31 local authorities increased their enforcement activity between 2014 and 2016. But local authorities now need to target inspections to improve air quality in towns; better manage food-recycling; and reduce the illegal dumping of tyres.

The agency used 26 indicators to measure local authorities’ environment-enforcement performance and found that 29 (93%) have met the target standard.