{"id":278822,"date":"2026-02-03T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278822\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:07:09","slug":"council-to-ask-re-turn-to-help-with-cleaning-bills-as-scavengers-empty-bins-across-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278822\/","title":{"rendered":"Council to ask Re-Turn to help with cleaning bills as &#8216;scavengers&#8217; empty bins across Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chief executive of Dublin City Council has said &#8220;scavengers&#8221; are emptying bins in search of bottles or cans to return.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Shakespeare insists local authority crews are cleaning up the rubbish as often as they possibly can.<\/p>\n<p>He said this problem is common on his route between the Mansion House and George&#8217;s Street.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare said Dublin City Council will be asking Re-Turn for money to help pay the cleaning bills.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Newstalk, he said: &#8220;That extra cleaning piece, it probably means I have an extra 10 people on the streets at any given point in time to react to that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And when I look at the cost of the 10 people, it is anywhere between half a million and a million, depending.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Re-Turn said it was not informed about these costs and it is happy to engage on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chief executive of Dublin City Council has said &#8220;scavengers&#8221; are emptying bins in search of bottles or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-278822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}