Castlebar has retained its “Clean to European Norms” designation in the summer survey of litter levels by Irish Business Against Litter. The town is in 20th spot in the ranking of 40 towns and cities. 

Sligo town secured 8^th place and is deemed Cleaner than European Norms.

Balinasloe came in at 23^rd place, Roscommon town in 26^{th -} with both towns catagorised as Clean to European Norms.

The latest survey found that while Ireland’s towns and city centres are clean, disadvantaged areas of our cities are suffering increasing levels of litter. IBAL sees more mixed housing as the long-term solution to the urban litter problem.

The An Taisce report states: “A very good result for Castlebar, consolidating its improvement of last year. This time around there were six top ranking sites, with the remainder moderately littered. There were no seriously littered sites. Very good sites included Lough Lannagh Park and Lough Lannagh Community Centre – these areas were not just good with regard to litter but also very well presented and maintained e.g. colourful planting, clear and clean signage etc.  The Recycle Facility at Dunnes Stores, while still littered, was much improved on previous surveys”.

Galway city centre is deemed Moderately littered while Ballybane in the city is described as Seriously littered.

The most recent statistics available on litter enforcement show the cost of litter wardens is 10 times greater than the revenue collected through litter fines. While the cost of the service has risen over the past 6 years, the revenues collected have halved from €1.7m to €0.84m. 

 

IBAL ANTI-LITTER LEAGUE – SUMMER RESULT 2018

 

1	Fermoy	Cleaner than European Norms
2	Nenagh	Cleaner than European Norms
3	Ennis	Cleaner than European Norms
4	Dublin Airport Environs	Cleaner than European Norms
5	Longford	Cleaner than European Norms
6	Killarney	Cleaner than European Norms
7	Naas	Cleaner than European Norms
8	Sligo	Cleaner than European Norms
9	Monaghan	Cleaner than European Norms
10	Waterford City Centre	Cleaner than European Norms
11	Mullingar	Cleaner than European Norms
12	Athlone	Cleaner than European Norms
13	Limerick City South	Cleaner than European Norms
14	Navan	Clean to European Norms
15	Drogheda	Clean to European Norms
16	Kilkenny	Clean to European Norms
17	Limerick City Centre	Clean to European Norms
18	Cavan	Clean to European Norms
19	Letterkenny	Clean to European Norms
20	Castlebar	Clean to European Norms
21	Waterford City - Ballybeg	Clean to European Norms
22	Dundalk	Clean to European Norms
23	Ballinasloe	Clean to European Norms
24	Tallaght	Clean to European Norms
25	Cork City Centre	Clean to European Norms
26	Roscommon	Clean to European Norms
27	Gorey	Clean to European Norms
28	Bray	Clean to European Norms
29	Portlaoise	Clean to European Norms
30	Dublin City Centre	Clean to European Norms
31	Dun Laoghaire	Clean to European Norms
32	Maynooth	Moderately littered
33	Galway City Centre	Moderately littered
34	Tralee	Moderately littered
35	Carlow	Moderately littered
36	Cork City - Mahon	Littered
37	Cork City Northside	Littered
38	Ballymun	Littered
39	Dublin North Inner City	Seriously littered
40	Galway City - Ballybane	Seriously littered