Clean Up Laois Week 2012

Clean Up Laois Week 2012, in association with An Taisce’s National Spring Clean, will commence from Monday 16^th to Friday 20^th April 2012.

Litter-pickers, bags and gloves will be provided to groups, schools and individuals who will be taking part in clean-ups in their own localities.  In addition the Environmental Enforcement Officers will work with the community and collect the resulting bags of rubbish.

Laois County Council is committed to making Laois a cleaner, greener County and will continue to promote and fund this very worthwhile initiative.

Please get involved in "turning spoil into sparkle" in 2012 and make your area a better place to live and grow.

Any person / group wishing to participate should register on or before Thursday 5^th April 2012.

• Rubbish collected during the clean ups will only being taken away from the 16^th to 20^th April 2012. If you wish to do your clean up the week or weekend before and arrange to have it collected on the 16^th or 17^th this can be facilitated.

• Please note that only bags provided will be collected. No large bags or 1 tonne bags will be collected as they do not fit into the compactor in use.

Please separate recyclable materials

Community Clean Up - October 2011

Every year, Laois County Council’s dedicated “Clean up Laois Week” in conjunction with National Spring Clean month gets bigger and better.  To continue on from this years’ success; the Environment Section of Laois County Council is undertaking a second “Community Clean Up” from 10-14 October.

The campaign was launched at the Civic Plaza, Aras An Chontae on Monday, 26^th September at 11am.  The aim of this initiative is to encourage communities to work together for the betterment of the environment and, at the launch, groups gathered to show their support with their local authority namely children from St. Pauls, Scoil Mhuire, Portlaoise Educate together and Scoil Bhride, dignitaries, local traders and Tidy Town members.

Director of Services, Mr. John Daly said “We rely on the wonderful and ongoing support from volunteers countywide.  Their dedication and hard work is fundamental and forms the backbone of any community”.  To endorse the event, it was fitting that the Chairperson of Laois Federation of Tidy Towns, Noreen Byrne, launched the campaign.  Ms. Byrne added “that everyone has a duty to play in keeping their surrounds clean and litter free and she was particularly happy to see the school children present as the importance of educating children at a young age in litter control is vital.

Laois County Council encourages people from all walks of life to take pride in their local environment and to take action against litter.  Register your Clean Up on or before 30^th September 2011 with Laois County Council’s Environment Section on 057 86 74330 or sdonoher@laoiscoco.ie.  Application forms can be downloaded from www.laois.ie

Clean up kits (bags, gloves and litter pickers) will be provided to pre-registered groups and these kits can be collected from Monday 3^rd October 2011 from The Environment Section, Aras an Chontae, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. Supplies are limited and will be distributed on a first come first served basis.  All resulting bags of hand-picked litter only (non-domestic/no bulky waste) will be collected as close as possible to the agreed date and at the location specified.  Bags will then be disposed of to the landfill at no cost to your group.  Any uncontaminated recyclables should be segregated in the specific bags provided.

Help us combat the litter problem!  Remember it is your community…help make a difference!