There’s no let up in our littering

ENOUGH people to fill Croke Park five times over will take to the highways and byways during April, picking up rubbish recklessly and shamelessly thrown to the four winds.

More than 400,000 volunteers will take part in National Spring Clean, Ireland’s largest anti-litter campaign, which shows civic spirit is still very much alive. Unfortunately, the fact they must do this work, year after year, also shows that a sizeable number of others just don’t care and continue littering.

Organised by An Taisce and funded by the Environment Department, the campaign runs throughout April and has been making Ireland a cleaner place since 1998.