Clare Fm - Podcasts

More bins and a fresh call for a levy on disposable coffee cups have been proposed to tackle Clare's costal litter scourge. It's after he Irish Business Against Litter League's latest report has deemed Lahinch and Doolin to be "moderately littered". The judgements were made by the environmental group An Taisce and the independent adjudicators decided in Clare, only Mountshannon was clean to European norms, for having a "virtual absence of litter.". At Lahinch, however, legacy issues of utensils, cigarette butts food waste, coffee cups, plastic bottles discarded within the rock armour and on the promenade and car park reared their head once again. Lahinch was ultimately deemed to be moderately littered; a slight improvement on the litter grade received last year. IBAL Spokesperson Conor Horgan says that while the local authority should look to revise their cleaning schedule during busy periods, he believes a coffee cup levy is also necessary. Doolin also improved on last year's ranking, but was judged to