There's a poor showing for Drogheda in the first IBAL (Irish Business Against Litter) survey for 2021, losing its 'clean to European norms' status, and now being listed as 'moderately littered'.
Although still retaining its 21st place ranking from the last survey in October 2020, the report shows as sharp increase in coffee cup litter, alongside PPE masks, with the Bring Centres once again being highlighted as litter black spots.
'Having regained its clean status last summer, Drogheda has again fallen to moderately littered,' said An Taisce. 'By far the most heavily littered site surveyed was the Bring Centre on Trinity Street - it wasn't just casually littered but copious quantities of items had been stuffed between the units and domestic refuse had been discarded'.