COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

QUESTION NO.19

QUESTION: Councillor B. Leech

"To ask the Chief Executive is there anything that can be done for residents of estates who through some reason or other have accumulated huge numbers of black bags and it would seem have no bin collection because they can't afford it. This is a serious problem and causing infestation. Can there be some arrangement for these people like a large skip left in the estate for a short period of time?"

REPLY:

It is not proposed to provide skips in estates for the purpose of management of household waste.

The South Dublin County Council House Hold Waste Bye-Laws 2012 provide for the segregation, storage, and presentation of household waste, and outline the general obligations on every household to dispose of waste in an authorised manner.

Furthermore the Household Food Waste and Bio-Waste Reguations 2015 require that all household food waste must be segregated and made available for seperate collection (in "Brown Bin") by an authorised collector.  Alternatively householders may compost  food waste at home; or bring it themselves to authorised treatment facilities such as civic amenity sites or anaerobic digestion sites.

From 1st july 2016 it is intended nationally that householders will be requested to demonstrate that they are managing their waste correctly, and those who cannot demonstrate that they are managing their waste correctly (either through the production of a contract / bill/ receipt from their household waste collector / management company or the production of receipts from a Pay To Use (PTU) / Civic Amenity Site (CAS) will be liable to a fixed penalty notice (fine). 

Currently, households who do not dispose of their waste correctly are liable to prosecution under the Litter Management Act 1997 as amended, and the Sanitary Services Act should the holding of waste cause infestation / public health nuisance.