Clonmel is “Clean to European Norms” according to the latest survey from business group Irish Business Against Litter. Clonmel is the only Tipperary town in the list of 40 towns included in the survey and is placed 22nd of the forty with Naas judged to be the cleanest of the towns included.
Nine of the towns are found to be cleaner than European Norms – Naas, Ennis, Killarney, Leixlip, Monaghan, Sligo, Tullamore, Waterford City and Wicklow. At the worst end of the scale Cork North Side and Dublin Inner City are both rated as seriously littered with Galway inner city and Tallaght rated as littered. Two areas in county Limerick were surveyed – Galvone and the City Centre and both are given a moderately littered rating.
Nationally areas seen as littered or worse is at its lowest in five years, according to the latest report from IBAL which promotes clean towns as being essential to improve the economic performance of towns and Ireland in general as a tourism destination.
One year on from the introduction of the Deposit Return Scheme, plastic bottle and can litter is down 50% on previous levels but was still found in 20% of the 500-plus sites surveyed across the country. The report also notes that while the prevalence of coffee cups on our streets remains stubbornly high, there was a fall-off in disposable vape litter. The An Taisce reports of individual areas can be viewed at this link here.
