Irish Business Against Litter

Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) is an alliance of companies sharing a belief that economic prosperity is contingent on a clean, litter-free environment.

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

Congrats to Sligo town, winner of the 2025 IBAL Anti-Litter League! @sligococo So how did your town fare?
https://t.co/nY939Gjv7k

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

Big Beach Clean is next week - an important annual event on our calendar Organised by An Taisce's @CleanCoasts programme, which encompasses over 2,500 groups and tens of thousands of volunteers. Do your bit to protect our coasts!

https://t.co/vwMQtYbIYS

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

Government has announced funding of €380,000 to bring the Picker Pals programme to almost 1,000 classrooms nationwide

https://t.co/6w3ONPMDnp

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

We know how conscious @CrokePark are of keeping their environs free of litter, not least at this very busy time of year … a big shout out to those who got a certificate for volunteering at Croke Park from Practical Learning Service where they are studying English classes.

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

Every day, Tony Godsil collects litter from Sandymount Strand in Dublin with the help of a litter-picking four-legged friend, his dog Sally ...

https://t.co/dwJIAigKKi

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

Hear IBAL's Conor Horgan on @rte 's @morningIreIand talking about our latest survey results ...
https://t.co/JuaYcs61pM

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

Congrats to @SligoTidyTowns @SligoC89411 on topping our latest rankings! Also to @MonaghanCoCo @KildareCoCo ... and to @DubCityCouncil and @corkcitycouncil on improvements in urban areas. All details at https://t.co/UfKbYiNtRq

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

IBAL's Conor Horgan was on @rte radio one this morning talking to David McCullagh about the latte levy
https://t.co/5qpup5SlwC

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

In the 20 counties in which @WEEEIreland operates, it found that just 6% of used vape and e-cigarette devices came back for recycling.
- only 1.4 million of the 25 million vapes sold last year had been returned.
https://t.co/I8NOYEJNKn

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

A Colorado bill would prevent restaurants from giving customers single-use #plastic items like utensils and condiment packets unless the person explicitly asks for them.
https://t.co/f7uECY30xI

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

Hear IBAL's Conor Horgan talking about on-the-spots litter fines to @AntonSavageShow on @NewstalkFM last week ..
https://t.co/pXBQYjyNUf

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

Fly-tipping on the rise in the UK
https://t.co/vDg7NYZEa1

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

It was great to be in beautiful Sligo town yesterday to present the Tom Cavanagh Memorial trophy to Sligo County Council on winning the 2025 Anti Litter League. Hear Conor Horgan earlier on RTE talking about cleaner cities, the DRS and coffee cups ...
https://t.co/q8YNNZNrZv

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

IBAL's Conor Horgan on @rtenews this week talking about the improvement in the cleanliness of our coasts ..
https://t.co/fJQfEZyejB

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

The findings of our latest coastal survey are now available - good news to report as over half of areas surveyed were deemed clean, despite the benign summer weather bringing higher visitor numbers to our coasts.
https://t.co/5tqUqxZnz7

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

Cigarette butts: “the plastic problem that no one is talking about.” World Health Organization
https://t.co/Bq8FZOy3Ps

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

This is 'spogomi', a Japanese #litterpicking sport:  teams have 45 minutes to collect as much #litter as possible, then 20 minutes to sort their litter.
https://t.co/gQYcipI89V

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

Latest litter survey: more clean towns, city centres improve, and it's 5 years since we had fewer areas branded 'littered' or worse ... find your town here:
https://t.co/Oi50meXXu0

[Irish Business Against Litter @IrishLitter]

From the RTE archive ... 25 years ago

https://t.co/a6WmZhCvdd

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Disposable vapes: "The Irish Government is drafting equivalent legislation, but it is not ready yet. Notification to the EU will also delay implementation for a number of months."
https://t.co/2AX5rJCJgD