Rural Life
Fine Gael Senator, Paraic Brady has called for an increase in the fines for fly-tipping in local bogs to a minimum of €10,000.
N.Ireland
Less than a quarter of fines paid to the Department of Agriculture for waste crimes such as fly-tipping are reinvested in cracking down on illegal dumpers in Northern Ireland.
A well-known farmer has threatened illegal fly-tippers with a load of buffalo dung following the latest illegal dumping.
Environment
A fly-tipping lorry that was illegally dumping a large volume of litter was seized by members of An Garda Síochána in Co. Louth.
A UK farmer who found 421 tyres dumped illegally on his land "kindly returned" them to the owner - by dropping them in his front garden.
A Scottish farmer was faced with the disgusting discovery of 2t of waste from a meat processing site dumped on his land.
A man confronting people suspected of being illegal dumpers has gone viral through a video posted on social media last week.
A fly-tipper was brought to court last week for illegally dumping waste in a rural area in Co. Wexford, Wexford County Council has confirmed.
Local authorities spend hundreds of thousands of euros cleaning up after litter bugs and maintaining clean policies.
A farmer who was victim to fly-tipping, the illegal dumping of rubbish, publicly called out the owner of the waste on social media.
The Minister for Local Government, Simon Coveney, has been called on to lead a robust response with local authorities to tackle serial dumpers who use the countryside as an illegal fly-tipping ground by the IFA.
You can now report environmental pollution on Android phones thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 'See it? Say it!' app.
