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The chairman of the Athlone Area committee is calling for greater action to be taken to deal with illegal dumping while protecting those who do follow the law.

A section of lakeside road which has been subjected to high levels of dumping in recent weeks is to be closed to traffic.

A 29-year-old man was convicted of illegal dumping during this week’s sitting of Ballina District Court.

Councillor Harry Barrett, has called on people to use a dedicated hotline to report dumping and fly tipping around Castlebar as “the problem is escalating”.

A Ballyhaunis woman was convicted and fined a total of €1,150 for illegal dumping in Ballyhaunis District Court this week.

More that 180 incidents of illegal dumping and fly-tipping in Galway were made to a hotline set up by the Environmental Protection Agency over the past four years.

The new CCTV at the bottle bank on the Western Distributor Road is proving a success with six offenders caught dumping illegally on Tuesday.

Fine Gael councillor Noreen Heston has come up with an interesting suggestion to tackle the problem of litter within the county. She put down a motion which was due to be debated at Castlebar Town Council’s meeting last night (Thursday) calling on Mayo County Council to make the facilities at the council’s landfill sites free to all residents of the county for one week.

An apparently broken camera at the bottle bank on the Green Road is doing little to deter people from dumping their rubbish at the site, according to a local councillor.

Despite having closed-circuit television images, local councillor Walter Lacey is asking why nobody has been caught for illegal dumping in Carlow.