There is a cleanup taking place on Saturday March 21st. We will be meeting at 10am meeting by the Tourist office on the Quay. We would love to see our regular volunteers and some new faces, everyone is welcome. We will be litterpicking, planting, recycling, and signing up people for the Green Dog Walkers Project.

The Green Dog Walkers Campaign is a positive and pro-active way to encourage and support responsible dog ownership in Wexford. It aims to increase awareness of the problem of dog fouling which is among the most common forms of littering. When you sign up to the scheme you will get a complimentary Green Dog Walkers high-vis vest, Green Dog-Walkers armband indicating that you are a responsible dog–owner participating in and supporting the scheme and a ‘doggie bone’ poop-bag dispenser with a roll of bags.

This is a campaign promoted and funded by the Environment Department of Wexford County Council, and supported by Borough District of Wexford, Wexford Tidy Towns, WSPCA, Visit Wexford.ie to combat the dog fouling in Wexford Town. Join our Green Dog Walkers campaign, by signing the pledge and together we can reduce dog-fouling in our community.

Members of Wexford Tidy Towns picked up the Bronze medal that we were awarded earlier this year at the National Tidy Town Awards at the Regional Awards Ceremony held in Kilkenny at the end of November. Congratulations to everyone who helped us receive this award, from the volunteers to business owners and residents who all play a role in keeping Wexford clean and beautiful. We were delighted to regain our bronze award this year.

We had our last clean-up of the year on 13th December meeting at the Bullring. Thank you to everyone who came along and wore their festive Christmas hats! Some photos of the clean-up taken by our friends in Love Redmond Park can be found here. We had very little litter to pick up thanks to the Gateway people who are a credit to our town. We got 31 people to sign up for the Green Dog Walkers more details on that scheme and how you can sign up be found here. We also gave out a lot of cigarette pouches, now we hope everyone remembers to use them. Bin your cigarette butts!

Wexford Tidy Towns wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year. Thank you for all your support this year to Wexford Tidy Towns and to anyone who helped out in any way. We look forward to your continued support throughout 2015 and to making next year an even bigger success for Wexford Tidy Towns.

This week’s clean up 20th September we found ourselves at Kaat Strand as Wexford Tidy Towns were involved with the Clean Coasts Big Beach Clean weekend 2014. This event was taking place all around the nation on the weekend of the 19th, 20th and 21st of September. Clean Coast teamed up with the International Ocean Conservancy again for this International Coastal Cleanup event. Last year 645,015 volunteers in 92 countries removed 5,580 tonnes of marine litter from the world’s oceans. You can find out more about this international initiative at Clean Coasts Website

Our Big Beach Clean was a massive success, 25 volunteers met at Kaat Strand at 10am and over the next two hours collected 52 bags of rubbish, a TV, a mattress and lots of other debris. There is always a good deal of litter washed up in this area so every pair of hands that we have will be greatly appreciated. We would like to say a big thank you to Slaney Branch, Inland Waterways, who also joined it was a pleasure to work with them. Also thank you to the Riverbank House Hotel who looked after us all again providing lovely fresh tea, coffee and scones after our clean up.

We would like to remind you to dispose of your waste responsibly, don’t let it end up in our waters where it can do harm to the wild life and damage our coastline.