‘Tremendous improvement’: Irish beaches are at their cleanest in eight years | BreakingNews.ie

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1. This will be a quiet one 😀 

2. Great! Now let’s improve the water quality too!

3. I read that headline in Donald Trump’s voice

4. The deposit return scheme has been extraordinarily successful. What I can’t understand is that even though it only applies to plastic bottles and aluminium cans that we’re seeing a huge reduction in other forms of litter as well. Is it that if you sort the bottles and cans littering that people are less likely the discard food wrappers, crisp packets, etc?

5. Great. Heard your man on radio 1 this morning saying it and was actually startled to hear someone on Irish radio say and I quote ‘it’s actually great news’.

   Presenter was flummoxed and tried to hone in on the three beaches that didn’t get passed as clean but he was having none of it.

   Fair play everyone and keep up the good work.

6. Surprised to see Tramore achieve “clean” status as anytime I’ve visited this season there has been a lot of rubbish (anything from nappies, clothing, cans, takeaway, plastic toys etc) left along the beach.

7. Lovely to see good news for a change 🙌🏻

8. I unfortunately thought this was going to be about water quality

9. Its cause no one can afford to go to the beach

10. Was at Seapoint a few weeks ago when the weather was good and the water was clear and blue, usually there’s tonnes of seaweed washed ashore but not on this occasion. Was great to see.

    They’ve done a similar job with cleaning up the Seine river in Paris, to the point where you can now swim in it in certain parts of the city. Im holidaying in Paris now and swam in it yesterday, it’s wild. Imagine we could swim in the Liffey in Dublin!

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