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A COMMUNITY IN Cork has figured out it could raise more than €19,000 if it were to fine everyone who litters there on a daily basis.
Located on a busy main road, the village of Glounthaune has a lot of passing traffic. This has led to litter problems on its streets.
Speaking on C103′s Cork Today show yesterday, the village’s Tidy Towns vice-chairperson Conor O’Brien said that the group decided to take action and hire a professional to monitor how many cars pass through on a daily basis.
Over the course of a week, three monitoring points were installed throughout the village.
The results found that 11,500 vehicles pass through on average every day.
“Analysing the litter, we would say there’s about 130 littering events every 24 hours. For every 100 cars that pass, one of them is going to litter,” O’Brien said.
If a litter warden sees somebody littering, they are authorised to issue an on-the-spot fine of €150.
Therefore, if a litter warden was to fine everyone who litters in the village on a daily basis, they would raise over €19,000 on average.
O’Brien said that tissues, cans, plastic bottles, cigarette packets, chocolate wrappers and sandwich packs are found on the village’s streets every day.
“We have been very careful in picking up the litter in the past number of years. Obviously it gets frustrating when you see the relentless nature every single day,” he said.
O’Brien admitted that catching everyone in the act is unrealistic.
“You will never get anywhere near as close to that,” he said.
As a solution, O’Brien suggested that CCTV could be installed in the village to catch people who were depositing their litter onto the ground.
Ultimately maybe you could do CCTV surveillance in litter control vans that could be moved to the litter hot spots from time to time – the same way speed control camera vans have helped.
“Most cigarette smokers, when they just throw their cigarette ends out of the car… they don’t really think they’re littering,” he said.
He said the Tidy Towns committee has been working with the local primary school for years and continues to run annual awareness competitions.
During the competitions, the committee hangs a large sign up on road signs.
“It’s really reinforcing to the kids in the schools [who] would be proud of their work and maybe the odd person passing by would think about litter.
Signs alone aren’t going to change your behaviour. You need to have a bit of the stick of the fining as well.
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You wouldn’t be long gettin’ frostbit
Don’t mock the weather, if it didn’t change every now and again, alot of us people couldn’t start a conversation..
Yellow Snow Warning: Don’t eat the yellow snow!
Nice one ted !
Snow turns yellow when you piss on it
Let it snow let it snow let it snow…
And drivers switch on dipped lights for daytime driving and fond wave another driver out of a siding into oncoming traffic
Bet the M50 will be like carpark tomorrow and for the week
Cold > rain still.
Odd shit going down up at dublin airport. Planes using alterate runway to land and no wind as reason. Riot van on north layby area on north side of airport. Airport police just burned past at 100mph up the usual runway the way planes usually land AND a jet just landed that wasnt on the flightradar.
All odd.
I’m intrigued!
Just had a look on Twitter. Maintenance on the runway that’s why it’s closed. Dunno what all the other stuff is about.
You reckon there might be something sinister going on??
Please be careful out there…
“Don’t make any unnecessary journeys”
Don’t go to work after tax etc not worth the risk
A soft drizzle falling on the way into Mitchelstown and it’s freezing on contact. If your coming that way from Dublin or Limerick be double wide. Tis like a sheet of glass.
People never slow down, speed is in their psyche when they are behind a wheel?
Don’t be obsessed with speed, despite what the RSA keeps saying, slowing down doesn’t fix everything – a driver’s chosen speed is a small part of the effort required to be a safe driver. Recognising the conditions and hazards, and using them to form a constantly-evolving driving plan in your head, are the things that will keep you safe, rather than, for example, driving out of habit, while allowing your mind to wander, or only watching your speed and just following the car in front.
Yes everyone. Forget about the Road Safety Authority and follow the advice of some random twitter account. Can’t go wrong.
Some people are so quick to develop bad habits when driving and then they complain about other drivers then doing what they are suppose it, a bit mad…
It only makes sense that if your driving slowly and crash into a stationary object that less damage will occur, whilst driving at speed and crashing will cause more damage.
The snow and frost of 2010 just showed how daft people were at speeding in those weather conditions then… There are plenty of scary drivers about…
That’s it, Getting Football Manager 16. Tired of this muck.
This weather will further delay the subsidence of the flooding and add to the extreme misery of the victims. It’s hard to imagine the horrendous consequences of this.
At least they have homes? What about the people that are outside in the middle of winter. There’s many more than last year when the media had some interest.
A snow day would be nice
That would be fantastic, so much fun!!!! The ice skates sales will be through the roof!
Looks like rain ted
What an original comment!!
I really wish people would stop saying that on every article about the weather.
All this shite talk of being careful and cold days and ice. If drivers really gave a crap they would fit winter tyres and turn on head lights on.
But they don’t and leave it to somebody else to blame.
The rsa Gardai and dept of transport has a lot to answer for.
How you can crash on snow n ice on summer tyres and get out and shrug your shoulders is beyond me.
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