Irish Business Against Litter
@IrishLitter
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Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) is an alliance of companies sharing a belief that economic prosperity is contingent on a clean, litter-free environment.
Dublin City, Ireland
Joined August 2018
Maynooth replaces Naas at the top of our litter rankings! Was your town up or down?
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Cigarette butts: “the plastic problem that no one is talking about.” World Health Organization.
anthropocenemagazine.org
Millions of toxic e-cig butts are tossed every day. A new study shows they can be recycled into asphalt pellets that boost road durability and cut carbon.
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This is 'spogomi', a Japanese #litterpicking sport: teams have 45 minutes to collect as much #litter as possible, then 20 minutes to sort their litter.
theguardian.com
The public-spirited sport of spogomi is catching on across Britain, which boasts its world champion team
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Latest litter survey: more clean towns, city centres improve, and it's 5 years since we had fewer areas branded 'littered' or worse . find your town here:.
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From the RTE archive . 25 years ago.
rte.ie
Irish Business Against Litter highlight the country's problem with rubbish and a failure to enforce litter laws.
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Disposable vapes: "The Irish Government is drafting equivalent legislation, but it is not ready yet. Notification to the EU will also delay implementation for a number of months.".
rte.ie
A ban on the sale and supply of single-use vapes comes into effect in Northern Ireland today.
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"Throwing away any non-disposable, inorganic products is unsustainable. Chewing #gum pollution is just another form of #plasticpollution. It’s time we start treating it as such.".
japantoday.com
Thousands of tons of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers – similar to...
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Failing to clean up dog poo gets the goat of fully 97% of Britons . Littering is another major irritant, with 96% saying it bothers them.
yougov.co.uk
The generations are most split on swearing and slow walking
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"@litter cost calculations are based on the composition of litter by weight not by count. As tobacco filters are very light – on average 0.2 grams each – the percentage of tobacco filters proportionate to the total weight of litter is very low”.
irishtimes.com
Contribution from 10 companies represents just 0.2% of total annual cost
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Bravo! Over 440 waste management staff on hand to keep Dublin clean over busy St Patrick’s weekend. @DubCityCouncil .
thejournal.ie
From Friday night at 10pm right up until 6am this morning, the Council had 442 waste management staff working in the city centre on rotating shifts.
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Researchers discovered plastic, glass, metal and paper waste at the bottom of the Calypso Deep, a 5,112m depression in the Ionian Sea about 60km west of Greece’s Peloponnese coast.".
independent.co.uk
Plastic accounts for nearly 90 per cent of debris in Calypso Deep
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Plastic straws are not recyclable so they end up in landfills and incinerators as well as littering our streets, polluting our environment where they may persist for more than 200 years. #plasticpollution.
rte.ie
US President Donald Trump has raged against eco-friendly paper straws promoted by his predecessor Joe Biden, and pledged that the United States would return to using plastic ones.
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Always nice to get an editorial in @theirishtimes !.
irishtimes.com
Dublin’s north inner city was the only area to be branded “seriously littered” by the survey which found that the situation there had deteriorated
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Well done to Naas, which won the IBAL Anti Litter League for the 3rd time in 4 years this week! @KildareCoCo
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IBAL's Conor Horgan featured on Virgin Media news yesterday on the latest litter results .
tiktok.com
121 likes, 25 comments. “Re-Turn reports over five million plastic bottles and cans were returned during Christmas. While Irish Business Against Litter notes fewer drink containers littering streets,...
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Our final survey for 2024 shows nationwide litter levels static despite the success of the Deposit Return Scheme. How’s your town doing?.
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Cork Airport installs #depositreturnscheme machines, but Dublin Airport has no plans for same .
thejournal.ie
Deposits from drinks containers returned to reverse vending machines will go to six of Ireland’s largest children’s charities.
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Nice piece . leaves are not litter: leave them alone! #biodiversity.
irishexaminer.com
There is a very good biodiversity case for leaving the leaves alone
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The Waterford Schools Litter Challenge, sponsored by IBAL member Tom Murphy Car Sales, was launched at their new Toyota dealership. The annual challenge encourages secondary school students to identify litter black spots and carry out regular litter picking, Well done Tom!
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Dublin City Council is modifying a number of bins in the city centre to try to prevent scavenging for plastic bottles and cans. #depositreturnscheme #bins #litter.
rte.ie
Dublin City Council is modifying a number of bins in the city centre to try to prevent scavenging for plastic bottles and cans.
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Good news from the annual Coastwatch ( Irish Coastal Environment Group - Coastwatch) survey .
irishtimes.com
Environmental group seeking citizen scientists to complete 2024 survey, especially in northwest and Northern Ireland
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