Litter survey: Only Ireland’s best will do

IT is heartening to learn that not one town out of 40 surveyed up and down the country was deemed a ‘litter blackspot’ in 2015, according to the annual report of Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL). 

What this means is that in spite of a what it calls a “fall-off”, no towns were in the “seriously littered” category. The finding that only parts of Dublin and Cork were still littered is also a refreshing contrast with other years.

Predictably, the offending areas are a notoriously disadvantaged and largely neglected part of Dublin known as the north inner city and the sprawling Cork suburb of Farranree, both of which remain littered. Yet, on a brighter note, Farranree is no longer regarded as a litter black-spot while Dublin’s north inner city is also cleaning up its act and has dropped its “seriously littered” tag.