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South Tipperary County Council was delighted with the
success of the F�S initiative in offering support to
the county's Spring Clean campaign.
Over 100 F�S workers took to the rural roads during
the month of April and filled over 8,500 bags of rubbish.
F�S 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 F�S and the Council
got underway to rid the rural roadsides of litter. F�S 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 F�S and South Tipperary County Council
proved invaluable as F�S provided the much-needed manpower
to do a clean sweep to rid the county roadsides of litter.
The County Council provided F�S 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 F�S 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 F�S coming forward
and offering its support to the county's Spring Clean campaign.
"I would like to acknowledge the commitment of F�S 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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