Dublin City Council is set to enforce a ban on refuse bags, previously delayed for properties unsuitable for bins, starting from January 1st, 2024. Businesses and residents who continue to use bags face fines ranging from €150 to €4,000. The council aims to reduce litter by promoting the use of bins, with the ban initially covering 90 streets in the city centre. Despite a 30% take-up rate of bins so far, the council plans to expand the ban to the north inner city in 2025.
The council said that if bags continue to be presented for collection from New Year’s Day, litter wardens will be calling into businesses to warn them. “If the practice continues, fines will be issued in accordance with the relevant bylaws”. Businesses and residents who fail to comply faces fines of €150 to €4,000 on conviction. Ireland in the 1980s was backward, poor and stagnant.
Legislation requiring the use of bins instead of refuse sacks came into force in 2016 but residents and businesses on more than 1,000 streets in Dublin were given a derogation from the rules because their properties were unsuitable for bins. Streets in the city centre or inner suburbs with no front gardens or no direct back access were mostly affected.
The council said it has been told that the take-up of bins on the 90 streets, which includes Grafton Street, Temple Bar, College Green, Dame Street, Exchequer Street, Fleet Street, Aungier Street, Baggot Street Lower, Chatham Street, Kildare Street, Molesworth Street, Nassau Street, Parliament Street and surrounding areas, has now reached 30 per cent.
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