Cameras to catch dumpers will be switched on in north inner city, the State’s dirtiest urban area
The removal of illegally dumped waste from Dublin city’s streets and suburbs costs Dublin City Council some €1 million annually. Photograph: The Irish TimesThe north inner city was again identified as the dirtiest urban area in the State by the Irish Business Against Litter report published earlier this month, with rubbish scattered from ripped plastic bags a particular problem.
‘The phone would ring and it would be Mike Scott from the Waterboys or Bono from U2. Everyone wanted to talk to my father’Cameras are due to be switched on this month the council said, but will only be used to catch litter louts who dump waste from a car. New legislation, the Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022, amended the Litter Pollution Acts to allow CCTV use, and the council has been working for the past two years with various State agencies to develop a new scheme.
The next phase of camera enforcement will involve the use of CCTV at bottle and textile banks where there is a high level of illegal dumping, before considering some suburban areas for the scheme.
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