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South Tipperary County Council was delighted with the
success of the FÁS initiative in offering support to
the county's Spring Clean campaign.
Over 100 FÁS workers took to the rural roads during
the month of April and filled over 8,500 bags of rubbish.
FÁS had approached the County Council to offer their
assistance after Councillors expressed concern at the
amount of rubbish on the roadsides visible to all passers-by.
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An excellent working partnership between FÁS and the Council
got underway to rid the rural roadsides of litter. FÁS litter-picking
crews were a common sight around the county, filling identifiable
yellow refuse sacks - brandishing a 'Don't Rubbish Tipp'
slogan. Rubbish bags were filled to the brim with plastic
bottles, disposable coffee cups and food packaging - which
topped the poll of the most common items found along the roadsides.
Incidences of illegal dumping along roadside drains were
also tackled and cleared away.
The partnership between FÁS and South Tipperary County Council
proved invaluable as FÁS provided the much-needed manpower
to do a clean sweep to rid the county roadsides of litter.
The County Council provided FÁS with the necessary materials
for the clean-up and organised local council depots to act
as temporary storage facilities for the yellow refuse sacks.
The Council refuse freighter collected the rubbish on a weekly
basis and transported the litter to the county's landfill
in Donohill.
The manpower provided by FÁS allowed 32 tonnes of rubbish
to be removed from the roadsides over a four-week period.
South Tipperary County Council is proud of this unique litter
initiative, which was made possible only by FÁS coming forward
and offering its support to the county's Spring Clean campaign.
"I would like to acknowledge the commitment of FÁS to this
initiative" - commented Bernadette Moloney, Public Awareness
Officer of South Tipperary County Council.
"Litter-louts be warned that littering is not acceptable
in South Tipperary - the county is clean, the gloves are off,
litter louts will not be tolerated" - she added.
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