Monday, June 16, 2008

Dublin cleans up litter problem

Dublin- The latest litter survey has found that cleanliness in Dublin city has improved noticeably, and that almost 60% of Irish towns are deemed clean to European levels.
The latest findings are mainly positive, particularly regarding the capital. Having languished as a blackspot for many years, Dublin city is now ranked in 16th place of the 55 areas surveye

However, Tullamore, Tallaght and Roscommon were described as litter blackspots. The towns of Bray, Ballina, Cobh, Enniscorthy and Longford were described as seriously littered.
It is the latest survey from Irish Business Against Litter - an alliance of companies that use the environmental group An Taisce to monitor all towns of population 6,000 and over.
The average litter rating rose to a record level; almost half of all approach roads to towns were littered; and inspectors found supermarket car parks to be a particular problem.

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