Council demands crackdown after 580 bags of rubbish dumped on Cork-Limerick road

Over 580 bags of roadside rubbish prompt Cork councillors to call for CCTV, dashcam evidence, and school campaigns

Council engineers said littering was rampant throughout the county and maintained there was even more of it happening on minor roads. File picture

The extent of illegal dumping on the side of a main road in Co Cork has been described as “astonishing”, after county council engineers revealed what contractors picked up.

They filled 580 big black bags with litter and also uncovered dumped mattresses, discarded old tyres and a number of old traffic cones during a recent week-long clean-up.