Key environmental messages
- Don’t litter and don’t tolerate those who do.
- Do not dump waste, sign up to a permitted refuse collector or use licensed facilities.
- Dog fouling is an environmental nuisance, in a built up areas you must clean up after your pet!
- Endeavour to minimise your waste, particularly when shopping.
- Use your ‘bag for life’.
- Use your kerbside recycling service – it will save you money as well as protect our environment!
- Use bring banks for glass bottles and jars and cans, but don’t leave materials at or about these facilities.
- Try composting – composting kits are available very cheap from the county council offices.
- Do not give waste to any person unless they hold a valid permit.
- Don’t burn waste, either in an open fire or in the back yard as even burning paper can release very harmful chemicals and dioxins into the environment.
- Support National Spring Clean - participate in a local cleanup event.
- Separate hazardous waste for safe disposal at the Tubbercurry Recycling Centre, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo.
- Be energy conscious, when not in use, knock off lights, power off appliances and choose energy efficient labels A & B on new goods.
- Don’t pour chemicals or unknown products down the drain. Protect surface and groundwater, remember these are our drinking water sources.