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DUMPING of bottles, cardboard and even household rubbish at the recy- cling bins in Kilrush is becoming an eyesore, a health hazard and could nobble the town’s chances in the tidy towns competition.
The matter was highlighted during a discussion at a recent meeting of the town council when councillors Colie Sweeney and Liam O’Looney raised the matter in motions calling for a proper recycling facility for the
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“It’s about time this council got real about recycling. The bottle bank at Place de Plouzane is an utter dis- erace, rats, flies and stray dogs are adding to the public nuisance there.
“Up in Kells and Mullingar they have brand new state of the art re- cycling centres through 75 per cent erants from the Department of the Environment. We have a tip head doubling as a bottle bank.,” Cllr Sweeney said.
Cllr O’Looney said that he had seen
the Kells facility and “it has every- thing. This town is growing and we should apply immediately for grant- aid for this project. We even have suitable land.”
ClUlr Tom Prendeville warned that “if the tidy towns judges go into Place de Plouzane and see the mess in there, we’ll drop by 100 marks”.
Town Clerk Fiona Looney, told the meeting that following a previous discussion about the facility, plans had been made to replace the collec- tion bins with a more modern design
and to reorient them in a block.
A CCTV system is planned to mon- itor the area so that prosecutions can be brought against people who use the recycling facility for dumping.
Councillors told officials that any plan to improve the situation at Place de Plouzane should not be used to side-track plans for a major recycling facility for the town.
It was agreed that an application for funding for such a facility should be drawn up for presentation to the De- partment of the Environment.