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Along with the capital city, Kildare towns continued to
perform badly in the 2006 anti-litter league, with Maynooth and Naas, both
falling into the ‘Litter Blackspot’ category and Leixlip and Newbridge doing
poorly too.
IBAL singled out Youghal, Bray and Clonmel as areas that have demonstrated
spectacular improvements in recent years to reach their current ‘litter free
status’.
Chewing gum was once again a major source of litter. Dr Cavanagh said “ what
does the Minster propose to do to remove the gum, visible on almost every street
in the country, will he leave it there, defacing the streets or does he plan to
allocate sufficient funds to remove it or ask the chewing gum manufacturers to
foot the bill. It will remain a real stumbling block to a litter free urban
landscape,” continued Dr Cavanagh. He continued on to say “Many local
authorities have even gone as far as suggesting a complete ban on chewing gum.
IBAL also announced today that in the New Year they will be removing Dublin from
the National Litter League and would instead compare it with selected European
cities. Dr Cavanagh commented, “there is no reason why Dublin should not be as
clean as the cleaner European Cities of similar size, Dublin Corporation will
welcome this initiative”.
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For further information contact Claire or Dawn in Cullen Communications.
Telephone 01 6689099/ 087 7819 375 / 087 215 6942 or
dburke@cullenencommunications.ie
Editors note:
Set up in 1996, Irish Business Against Litter is an alliance of companies
sharing a belief that continued economic prosperity - notably in the areas of
tourism, food and direct foreign investment - is contingent on a clean,
litter-free environment.
As part of the IBAL Anti-Litter League, An Taisce monitors all towns of
population 6,000 and over independently in accordance with international grading
standards.
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