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KERRY’S annual County Clean-Up Day has been launched and everyone in the county is being asked to get involved and play their part.
Now in its seventh year and with the support of Kerry County Council and KWD Recycling, the day set aside is Saturday, April 14.
Last year, 5,000 volunteers gathered a whopping 6,500 bags of litter on a single day in their own localities.
Organisers are asking local residents’ associations, schools, youth groups, sporting groups, businesses, families or simply a few friends to get together and gather litter along the major routes and along the local country roads throughout Kerry on the day.
Colm Cooper will be on the County Clean-up team for 2018 working hard, as always, to promote the county and lend a helping hand.
Mayor of Kerry, Cllr John Sheahan, has encouraged everyone in the county to take part.
“Kerry is a county so reliant on its reputation as a clean environment and its reputation as a tourist destination, so every citizen has a role to play in keeping the county tidy,” he said.
“The message we want to get out this year is to clean up the roads that are less frequently collected and stretches of roadside that might not have been cleaned in recent years,” he added.
KWD Recycling are busy preparing County Clean-up packs which will be distributed around the county and groups are asked to register with KWD to receive their pack and to arrange a collection points for bags of litter collected. Full details are available at www.countycleanup.com or e-mail countycleanup@kwd.ie.
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