Council urged to install bins in Turner's Cross to tackle dog waste

A LOCAL election candidate has called on Cork City Council to install bins to help tackle persistent dog fouling in his area.

Activist William O’Brien, who is running as an independent candidate in the Cork City South Central ward in the local elections, said the issue remained unresolved in the Turner’s Cross area, despite the best efforts of the council’s cleansing department. He said the council needed to install special bins for dog waste, especially in the Mount Pleasant Rd area, as dog waste and waste bags were regularly dumped in the vicinity of a local secondary school.

“Apart from the efforts of the cleansing department who stop off daily to pick up discarded dog poop bags while en route to other cleansing duties, this problem is unresolved,” Mr O’Brien said. “When it is left there, this litter continues to have a negative effect on the local environment, especially when the bags of dog poop build up more over the weekends.”

He added that it was important that it not be placed in bins belonging to local businesses. “This has caused health concerns in the past for staff in local premises, as they go about separating and recycling their own business waste. The shop owners had to take action and put up as a deterrent a sign saying: ‘No dog-poop to be put in the shop bin’.”

He said the installation of bins was clearly needed at Mount Pleasant Rd. “It is adjacent to the local secondary school, which has a high volume of passing schoolchildren, and there’s not even one dog-poop bin to be seen in this entire area to accommodate the disposal of dog poop and to keep the environment clean of this hazardous waste. In the interim, I am also calling on the litter warden from the council’s enforcement section to monitor this black spot.”