Last year €85 million was spent by local authorities on street cleaning, with cigarette butts accounting for half of all litter. Photograph: iStockTobacco companies will have to pay part of the State’s multimillion-euro street cleaning bills from New Year’s Day under new Government legislation prompted by European Union moves to cut plastic waste.
Last year, €85 million was spent by local authorities on street cleaning, including €36 million in Dublin. Cigarette butts account for half of all litter and are “the biggest litter scourge”, according to the National Litter Pollution Monitoring System. From January, tobacco companies will be liable in arrears for part of the costs, though the full size of the bill will not be set until data is collected on the contribution cigarette butts made to the litter toll during 2023.
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