National Communications Campaign calls for all Citizens to get involved in the Fight Against Illegal Dumping
Every county, city, town and village across Ireland is being called upon to join the fight against illegal dumping through a new communications campaign, “Your Country - Your Waste”, launched by the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan TD.
The “Your Country - Your Waste” campaign has been developed as part of the Anti-Dumping Initiative, and includes a tailored suite of information and awareness messaging for use by Local Authorities, community and voluntary groups, with all materials available to download from here
Minister Ryan said; “My Department will again this year provide funding for the 2021 National Anti-Dumping Initiative, last year over 300 projects were funded to tackle the problem of illegal dumping. Illegal dumping negatively impacts our communities, destroys our environment and costs significant exchequer funding to remove.
The “Your Country - Your Waste” campaign delivers on a commitment made in the enforcement chapter of the recently-published Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy. It highlights relevant contact numbers and email addresses to help make it easy for people to report illegal dumping. The campaign sees an enhancement of the collaboration between the public and the relevant authorities on awareness raising and in taking action.
There has been an increase in the number of calls reporting illegal dumping during the Covid 19 pandemic. Again this year, funds from the Anti -Dumping Initiative are to be ring fenced to deal with particular issues arising from the Covid-19 crisis. The increase in the number of reports received through the National Complaints Procedure by city and county councils indicates that people do not want illegal dumping or fly tipping in their counties, cities, towns, villages or countryside and are willing to assist in combatting this behaviour.
