Clean up of Dodder rubbish

YOU might, quite understandably, think the litter situation is bad here. But, just consider how much worse it would be only for the genuine efforts of the large and widely dispersed army of volunteers that picks up other people’s rubbish.

April is National Spring Clean month and more than 500,000 people took part in local clean-up events last April. There were 5,351 events countrywide and an estimated 550 tonnes of litter was collected, a third of which was recycled.

Cigarette-related litter continues to make up the lion’s share, 53%, mainly comprising cigarette ends, according to the National Litter Pollution Monitoring Survey.