Illegal dumping clean-up budget already spent for Portlaoise area
Reporter:
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The cost of cleaning up illegal dumping in Portlaoise this year has already exceeded the entire budget set aside for it for 2021.
The significant increase in the dirty practice has been outlined by Laois County Council. The annual budget for cleanups etc is at present overspent. The problem of illegal dumping has significantly increased since early 2020. The Waste Enforcement Officers and Litter Wardens are carrying out daily inspections and are cleaning up each of the locations.
However they say they will continue cleaning up the waste anyway for the rest of 2021.
Powys fly-tipping. A NEWTOWN resident received a fine for dumping his unsuspecting girlfriends rubbish in a layby near Penarth after promising to dispose of it properly. This is just one of the incidents Powys County Council has had to deal with as the authority clamps down on fly-tippers blighting the county with their irresponsible and antisocial behaviour. In recent months council Waste Enforcement Officers have responded to reports of fly-tipping and have successfully investigated the offences and issued Fixed Term Penalty (FPN) notices to the guilty perpetrators; In Churchstoke a resident was caught and fined for needlessly dumping bags of rubbish next to the recycling banks in a supermarket carpark.