Derry City Council currently spends £1.6m every year on cleaning its streets. However, litterers are now being targeted in Londonderry and the Council has issued thousands of pounds in fines, with nearly 200 on-the-spot fines issued since October 2012.
In the last seven months, more than £14,000 in fines have been issued, with the maximum fine for littering being £75, which is reduced to £50 if paid within 10 days.
Derry City Council's waste services manager, Conor Canning, said signs have been put up to warn people about the new fines. He said, "We have deployed huge resources to combat the problem. We have additional litter bins and cleansing crews but ultimately we are still faced with litter on the streets. Enforcement is just one way of tackling the problem."
SDLP councillor Shaun Gallagher added, "It is beyond a joke. Millions of pounds of ratepayers' money is spent on people who are too lazy to put litter in a bin".
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