Council remove litter from seafront

A VOLUME of waste of ‘airshow levels’ was removed from Bray Seafront the weekend before last, due to a combination of hot weather, and other sites being closed.

District Administrator David Forde said that people were using bins and businesses cleaning up around their own areas.

The Bray Tourism funded litter picking staff had started the previous Friday morning. Outdoor staff were transporting waste from the beach to their depot, with three roll-on roll-off skips filled over the weekend. ‘Most businesses have been doing their bit and picking up litter,’ said Mr Forde. He said that as vendors are operating a take-away service, the waste produced includes their packaging.

He said that with other sites unavailable, the seafront was a popular location for people to attend for a picnic or coffee.

Despite that, people were not dumping their waste and were using bins provided. Mr Forde said that there are approximately 75 receptacles available to the public on the seafront. They include the usual bins as well as extra wheelie bins and basket bins to provide extra capacity. Separately, the council collected rubbish which private residents of Woodbrook Glen had carried out on the old golf club lands.

This appeared to be due to gatherings of people drinking. Someone collected 10 bags of rubbish from the area and moved them down the roadway. While the golf club lands are technically in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown area and owned by Ballymore, the council had no difficulty collecting the bags and acknowledged the efforts gone to by residents to collect them.