Waterford is still the cleanest city in the country according to the latest Irish Business Against Litter survey.
It’s found in general cities were cleaner last year including in socially disadvantaged areas.
IBAL spokesperson, Conor Horgan says the least clean are getting better with previous blackspots Galvone in Limerick, Mahon in Cork and Tallaght in Dublin are among urban areas deemed cleaned
Sligo is the cleanest town in the country while An Taisce reports show no improvement for moderately littered Carlow but Kilkenny is clean.
The An Taisce report for Kilkenny stated; A good result for Kilkenny with no heavily littered sites and some sites just missing the top litter grade. The latter included High Street, the residential area of Beechlawn and the Bring Facility, New Park Shopping Centre. The wonderful grounds of Kilkenny Castle Park were sensitively presented and maintained – excellent with regards to litter. The Watershed Leisure Centre had some lovely features – picnic tables, welcoming planting at the entrance etc.
And for Carlow town; Carlow’s low ranking is explained by the presence of just one ‘clean’ site in the town – the lowest number in all the towns surveyed. In fact, one would expect a town with just one top ranking site to fare worse in the league. However, there were many sites which just missed the top litter grade – these included the residential area of Oakley Park and Tullow Street. The Bottle Bank at Town Hall Car Park was much improved and just missed the top grade. Mr Price and Car Park was moderately littered – an overall improvement on previous IBAL surveys. The two most heavily littered sites were Carlow Train Station and Staplestown Road / Oakley Park estate.
Meanwhile, see what Deputy Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere had to say re recent dumping incidents in both Kilkenny and Carlow.
