Irish Business Against Litter

IBAL - Introduction

Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) was set up in 1996 as an alliance of companies who believe that litter has a significant impact on our economic well-being. The main sources of our prosperity – tourism, Foreign Direct Investment and our food industries - all depend on an image of Ireland as a clean and green island. We are now a high-cost destination for visitors, who deserve first-class standards of cleanliness.

IBAL believes that it is the job of Local Government to solve our litter problem. It is through enforcement of litter laws - not public information campaigns - that we will rid our country of this scourge.

Students Cian Carroll from Wicklow and Christine Lewis, Dublin, launching the IBAL (Irish Business Against Litter) "Litter Twitter" campaign in Dublin today. Citizens are encouraged to alert local authorities to litter blackspots in their area by emailing images from their phone to litterspotter.2010@twitpic.com

Images can be uploaded onto twitter.com/litterspotter page by emailing from your mobile phone or email account to litterspotter.2010@twitpic.com . When emailing an image simply use the Subject field to include a caption – date, location and brief description. This will give IBAL and all viewers more detail on the image and help the local authority in identifying the site. Please do not write in main body of email as it will not be picked up. If you wish to contact IBAL directly please email info@ibal.ie .

Latest litter fine stats state that a total of 14,276 fines were issued from Jan-June 2008 - 46% were paid
Taking companies to task for breaching Litter Act would yield spectacular results at little cost

A major IBAL initiative has been the Anti Litter League. Ranking the performance of each local authority in combating litter in a league table format, has delivered tangible results. Now co-funded by the Dept of the Environment, the League covers 53 towns and city areas.

Bray was deemed overall winner of the IBAL Anti Litter League for 2009
Latest results show 27 out of 53 towns are Clean to European Norms compared to only 2 when the survey began in 2002

Bray - Anti Litter Winners 2009


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