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Litter Management Plan 2007 – 2009Mayo County Council• Schools Environmental Projects• Best Kept Burial GroundsBy presenting prizes and/or mementos to successful participants, MayoCounty Council is attempting to instil a sense of pride within the community,and also encouraging others to become involved.Measures Proposed• Mayo County Council will continue to support, both financially andotherwise, community groups and voluntary committees in their bids toprevent, control and alleviate litter.Having recently reviewed the current anti-litter campaigns such as LitterAction League and Cleaner Community Awards, it was concluded that morevigorous promotional campaigns will be necessary to maintain public interestand to attract additional members of all areas within the community. Newcategories will be added or existing categories will be supplemented topreserve and increase competition entries.• One such idea is the ‘Adopt An Area’ or ‘Adopt A Street’ initiativethat could be aimed at business owners of towns and villagesthroughout the county. To encourage participation from the businesscommunity, public areas could be designated as the responsibility ofbusiness owners. Participants to the programme would compete tomaintain a litter-free environment and in lieu of monitory gain orrewards, mementos and positive advertising for theirbusiness/establishment would be the main incentive.• Another similar proposal aimed at business owners is to includebusinesses and privately owned enterprises in Leaguecompetitions. Industrial estates have been identified as litter blackspots by both IBAL and An Taisce. In addition to the advisory lettersdistributed by Mayo County Council, a league table of littermanagement at these areas may serve to dissuade employers,employees and the general public from littering at these centres.Positive advertising in local newspapers as well as prizes would beincentives to partake in the Business Litter League.Page - 24 -
Litter Management Plan 2007 – 2009Mayo County CouncilLitter Management is an important matter, which is primarily a responsibilityof local authorities but also of every member and visitor of the county. Hence,while Mayo County Council will continue to support active measures byvolunteers, it is imperative that members of the public continue with theirimportant and recognised work in the litter pollution area.Street sweeping by Westport Tidy Towns Committee member3.1.4 Partnership and Consultative Measures/PlanningMeasures UndertakenThe Connaught Waste Management Replacement Plan 2006-2011 replacedthe 2001 Waste Management Plan and includes six local authorities of Galwaycity and Co. Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo in accordance withSection 22 of the Waste Management Acts 1996-2005. Although almostexclusively devoted to waste prevention and minimisation, this Plandemonstrated inter-county partnership and consultation and also includesdata on expenditure for litter prevention.Other partnership projects, which are currently undertaken, include that withthe Local Government Computer Services Board (LGCSB), the National LitterMonitoring Body (TES Consulting Engineers) and Mayo County Council. Themain purpose of the monitoring system is to generate reliable data to enablelocal authorities to measure accurately changes in the extent and compositionof litter pollution in its functional area, and hence to provide more effectivelitter management planning. Following ‘benchmark’ surveys in 2002/2003,Page - 25 -
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