PURE Education Pack Launch

PURE Education Pack Launch

PRESS RELEASE 7^th January 2008

The Mayor Billy Gogarty will launch the PURE (Protecting Uplands and Rural Environments) Education Pack for Primary Schools in County Hall, Tallaght on Wednesday 7^th January 2008 at 11am.

Pupils from Glenasmole National School, who took part in the recent PURE Poster Competition, will be present at the launch along with their teacher and representatives from South Dublin County Council and PURE. The winner of the poster competition was Orla Mooney and her poster will be included in the Education Pack which will be distributed to all Primary Schools in South Dublin County.

South Dublin County Council is one of the partners that support the PURE (Protecting Uplands & Rural Environments) Project - an environmental project established to combat the increase in illegal dumping/fly-tipping that occurs in the Wicklow/Dublin uplands. The PURE project is the first of its kind in Ireland where it brings together a number of statutory and non-statutory organisations in a joint endeavour to combat illegal dumping activities.

PURE (Protecting Upland & Rural Environments), is a partnership project which incorporates local authorities including: Wicklow County Council, South Dublin County Council, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, Dublin City Council, with Coillte, National Parks & Wildlife Service, ESB, and a number of non-statutory organisations represented by the Wicklow Uplands Council, in a joint endeavour to halt incidents of illegal dumping in the Wicklow/Dublin upland regions.

PURE Project is funded by the Department of Environment Heritage & Local Government and supported by the EPA.

For further information contact Claire Hinch, Environmental Awareness Section

Chinch@sdublincoco.ie