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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

QUESTION NO. 16

QUESTION: Councillor F. Warfield

"To ask the Chief Executive can an update be provided on the possible amendment of the Green Dog Walkers initiative to provide bio-degradable bags rather than plastic bags?"

REPLY:

The Green Dog Walkers initiative invites dog walkers to sign a pledge to clean up after their dog and to carry extra bags for other dog owners they meet who may have forgotten to bring a bag.

To promote this initiative, the Council provides a green doggy bone filled with bags on a 'once off' basis when signed pledges have been received.  To date these bags have not been biodegradable.

However, recently South Dublin County Council suggested to the Environmental Awareness Officers regional network group that in future biodegradable bags should be supplied.  This has been agreed and an order placed.  Once current stocks of plastic bags have been depleted, biodegradable bags will then be distributed. It is important however to point out that regarding the disposal of dog waste it is 'Any Bag, Any Bin'