Irish Business Against Litter

Congrats to Sligo town, winner of the 2025 IBAL Anti-Litter League! @sligococo So how did your town fare? ibal.ie/cleaner-cities…

Hear IBAL's Conor Horgan talking about on-the-spots litter fines to @AntonSavageShow on @NewstalkFM last week .. newstalk.com/podcasts/highl…

Fly-tipping on the rise in the UK bbc.com/news/articles/…

It was great to be in beautiful Sligo town yesterday to present the Tom Cavanagh Memorial trophy to Sligo County Council on winning the 2025 Anti Litter League. Hear Conor Horgan earlier on RTE talking about cleaner cities, the DRS and coffee cups ... rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

IBAL's Conor Horgan on @rtenews this week talking about the improvement in the cleanliness of our coasts .. rte.ie/news/regional/…

The findings of our latest coastal survey are now available - good news to report as over half of areas surveyed were deemed clean, despite the benign summer weather bringing higher visitor numbers to our coasts. ibal.ie/cleaner-coasts…

Cigarette butts: “the plastic problem that no one is talking about.” World Health Organization anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/from-r…

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/environment/20…

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: ibal.ie/litter-survey-…

From the RTE archive ... 25 years ago rte.ie/archives/2025/…

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/news/2025/0601…

"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/category/featu…

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/society/articl…

@DubCityCouncil will expand the bag ban to the north inner-city by late August, focusing on areas such as O'Connell Street, Henry Street, Abbey Street, Westmoreland Street and Dawson Street, removing the derogation city wide over the next 12 months" dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-ne…

"@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/business/2025/…

Bravo! Over 440 waste management staff on hand to keep Dublin clean over busy St Patrick’s weekend. @DubCityCouncil thejournal.ie/over-440-dubli…

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/news/science/l…

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. rte.ie/news/world/202… #plasticpollution

Always nice to get an editorial in @theirishtimes ! irishtimes.com/opinion/editor…

Well done to Naas, which won the IBAL Anti Litter League for the 3rd time in 4 years this week! @KildareCoCo