Clonmel retains litter-free status in latest survey
The latest study by business group Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) shows Clonmel in 8th position out of 53 towns surveyed, maintaining its litter-free status from 2009. A fall in the number of litter-free towns has prompted IBAL to call on businesses to clean up outside their premises twice a day to improve our streetscapes.
Meanwhile, Tipperary people are invited to submit photos by mobile phone of litter blackspots in their neighbourhood as part of a "litter twitter" campaign to alert local authorities to litter-ridden areas locally.
"This is the perfect technology through which people can highlight areas that urgently need cleaning up," explained Dr. Tom Cavanagh, Chairman of IBAL. Photos may be e-mailed to litterspotter.2010@twitpic.com and IBAL can be followed at twitter.com/litterspotter.
An Taisce's comment for Clonmel stated "Another excellent result – could 2010 be Clonmel's year for the top spot? Of the 17 Munster towns only Killarney is better. All four of the approach routes into Clonmel were Clean to European Norms and this high standard was maintained for the majority of the sites surveyed. Presentation Primary School is a Green Flag School and the ethos of the Green Flag was very much in evidence. Wolfe Tone Street was particularly enhanced by the painting of some of the period terraced houses. Gladstone Street, O'Connell Street and St. Mary's Church Car Park were moderately littered."
Wexford was judged Ireland's cleanest town in the survey, while Waterford emerged as the cleanest city.
The other Tipperary town surveyed, Nenagh, improved from 'littered' last year to 'moderately littered', and is in 43rd position out of 53 towns surveyed.
Set up in 1996, Irish Business Against Litter is an alliance of companies sharing a belief that continued economic prosperity - notably in the areas of tourism, food and direct foreign investment - is contingent on a clean, litter-free environment.
As part of the IBAL Anti-Litter League, An Taisce monitors all towns of population 6,000 and over independently, in accordance with international grading standards.
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