Kerry Litter adopted a plan to target trash, citing a rising tide of discarded takeout coffee cups on roadsides. It includes new smartphone apps for litter wardens as well as closed-circuit television cameras in green areas of housing estates in Killarney. A database of dumping spots is being created using geographic information system (GIS).
Litter “can drag an entire area down” and it was a persistent problem, a council meeting in Killarney, one of Ireland’s tidiest towns, was told. Despite the scale of the problem, a litter management plan before the public for consultation for months in Co Kerry had received only two responses.
