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The Liffey is awash with plastic bottles and cans.

  • 26-06-2018 06:12PM
    #1
    Chinasea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭


    Alive alive oh no.

    Just crossed the Luas bridge from Abbey Street onto the quays and am saddened to see a tide of floating empty coke, lucozade plastic bottles and cans. Shameful sight.


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  • #2
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭gctest50


    y no river cleaning boat ?










  • #3
    Chinasea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭Chinasea


    Urgently needed. But a deposit refund system would work even better.


  • #4
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    Considering, there is an entire dump been eroded into the sea out in Bray that no one in either the county council or government seems to care about, I am not really surprised.

    The government pushed ahead and rammed in a sugar tax on soft drinks, could have easily installed a process for reclaiming bottles but no, went for the easy number.

    People seem to be of the option that all this is hurting the environment, the environment doesn't give two ****s, the earth will keep on spinning, the question is will we still be on it.

    The EU should also consider a law on super-trawlers maybe even trawlers, that went they are collecting fish from the seas that as an example, they collect 500/1000kg of plastic waste or just general waste from the oceans for processing. Day dreaming stuff I know, but needs to start somewhere.


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