{"id":529033,"date":"2026-07-02T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529033\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:45:09","slug":"litter-fines-to-rise-by-e100-from-1-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529033\/","title":{"rendered":"Litter fines to rise by \u20ac100 from 1 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Litter fines will be increased from \u20ac150 to \u20ac250 from 1 September, Minister of State for the Circular Economy Alan Dillon has said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister has also launched a new \u20ac250,000 fund for local authorities to keep public areas, parks, beaches and greenways clean.<\/p>\n<p>It will also focus on dog fouling with funding being provided for dog waste bins and bag dispensers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to make it easier for responsible dog owners to do the right thing and help keep our parks, beaches and public spaces clean,&#8221; Mr Dillion said.<\/p>\n<p>A circular will be issued to Local Authorities with the details on how to apply for this funding.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement coincides with the publication of the 2025 National Litter Pollution Monitoring System results, which show improvements in litter levels across Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Litter fines will be increased from \u20ac150 to \u20ac250 from 1 September, Minister of State for the Circular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-529033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529033","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=529033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}