Streets of Shame as people dump rubbish in town

PEOPLE who are apparently refusing to pay to have their household rubbish collected, are instead dumping it in council bins located around Wexford town.

‘They are opening their black bags and taking out the rubbish bits at a time which they then put in the corporation bins,’ said Phil Murphy, from Wexford Tidy Towns.

‘It’s happening dozens of times a week and it’s getting worse,’ she said.

Phil said that while a lot of the dumping takes place at night she saw a woman in her 40s dumping her rubbish in a bin on the Quays at around 3.30 p.m. last Thursday.

‘I had my grandkids with me, so I didn’t speak to her as I didn’t want an argument with them in the car,’ said an exasperated Phil.

‘I can only think that these are people living in the town who don’t pay to gave their bins collected,’ she said.

Phil said another area of the town being used as a dump was in the public car park near the National Opera House where black bags of rubbish are being discarded by one or two individuals a couple of times a week.

Last week, Wexford Tidy Towns collected several bags that had been dumped in the car park and cleared a filthy mess of discarded wrappers of all sorts from behind a security barrier at a shop in Fettitts Lane.

‘We got the key from the tenant who owns an adjacent sports shop, so we could get into behind the barrier and clean up.. it was unreal,’ she said.