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Litter & Grass cuttings

  • 15-04-2014 10:23pm
    #1
    swanvill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭


    Hi,
    A silly question but I shall ask anyway :-)

    Can dumping grass cuttings, just grass no noxious weeds, into a ditch on the side of the road, if caught, can have you fined under littering laws?

    Or does the littering laws only apply to toxic or man made materials?


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  • #2
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,998 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Under the Litter Pollution Act 1997, any substance which "is or is likely to become unsightly, deleterious, nauseous or unsanitary" can be litter.


  • #3
    234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭234


    And unless you disperse it very widely, rotting grass has all the charm of raw sewerage.


  • #4
    time lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭time lord


    swanvill wrote: »
    Hi,
    A silly question but I shall ask anyway :-)

    Can dumping grass cuttings, just grass no noxious weeds, into a ditch on the side of the road, if caught, can have you fined under littering laws?

    Or does the littering laws only apply to toxic or man made materials?
    Litter is best summed up as waste in the wrong place be it an apple butt or a fag butt both would incur the same fine if thrown into a hedge for example.


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