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It comes amid a surge in littering levels in local parks and areas.
Clare Kelly is a coordinator with the Mount Merrion Residents Association.
She told Lunchtime Live they want people to enjoy the facilities but keep them clean. This is a problem, particularly since lockdown, that the parks are getting a huge amount of usage and people aren t brining their rubbish home with them. There is no way that the council, or the bins, could keep up with the amount of rubbish that s been left. We always did a monthly clean up in Mount Merrion - we always had people who came out really early in the morning, about 6.30 or 7.00 - and they would gather up the rubbish and leave it beside the bins for the council to collect.