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BUSINESSES IN DUBLIN city centre will be banned from leaving their waste in plastic bags for collection from 16 September.
The new provision preventing commercial premises from presenting their waste in plastic bin bags will begin with a transition period on 16 September and full compliance is expected by 1 January, 2025.
It’s part of a new “3 Pillar Waste Management Strategy” that was announced this evening.
“Dublin is not ‘a dirty old town’ but for too long commercial premises have been allowed present their rubbish in plastic bags while homeowners have used wheelie bins,” said Lord Mayor of Dublin James Geoghegan.
“The shop or the restaurant closes and the plastic bag of waste is left in front of the premises to be demolished by a seagull.
Geoghegan added that Dublin City Council has met with private bin operators, who are going to provide “more flexible solutions for restaurants and shops which have nowhere to put a wheelie bin but without dumping rubbish on the street in a plastic bag”.
In 2016, around 1,000 streets were designated as ‘Bag Collections Areas’.
Properties on these streets were allowed present their waste in plastic bags.
However, Dublin City Council now intends to remove this designation from as many streets as possible.
From 16 September, a transition period will begin for owners and occupiers of retail, commercial and residential buildings in the designated Phase 1 area, who will not be allowed present waste in plastic bags on city streets for collection.
There are 90 streets covered in this phase including, Aungier St, Baggot St Lower, Chatham St, College Green, Dame St, Exchequer St, Fleet St, Grafton St, Kildare St, Molesworth St, Nassau St, Parliament St, St Stephens Green, and Temple Bar.
Meanwhile, Dublin City Council (DCC) will employ an additional 100 operational staff, increasing the workforce to 540.
Over the next three months, DCC will also expand the area of the city centre that receives a 24-hour cleaning service.
DCC is also undertaking an €8.5 million enhancement and upgrade of the waste management fleet, including 22 new sweeper vehicles.
Dublin City Council Chief Executive Richard Shakespeare described it as an “ambitious new strategy” and added: “I firmly believe that when it comes to any major capital city such as ours, if you can get the basics right that is half the battle.”
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This is the same nation that sent a space probe to Mars.
Sadly India embraces the caste system, which is inequality between classes. That gives you the uber rich and also the uber poor. That is why they can send things into space and have loads of weapons.
What these women are doing is good and it should be applauded.
India’s caste system has less bearing on ones’s economic position that you might think. Higher caste is not necessarily richer. You will find all castes have people from the different folio economic strata.
Billions spent on nukes and an army
What a kip…
Gorta is delighted to support projects like this which have a major impact on local communities. The SCAD project directly assists 3,500 women in the self-help groups. The ripple effect is that these women are aiding an astounding 60,000 more women in their community.
For full details read Dee Kingston’s daily blog here http://www.gorta.org/blog/gorta-making-difference-india
What India should do is send a probe to Mars and increase its nuclear arsenal – all at great expense! That should help its citizens out of abject poverty!
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