Monaghan households generate enough single-use plastic waste annually to fill 80 Olympic swimming pools.
3,700 tonnes of this waste is produced in the county every year according to the organisation CUSP (Cease Using Single-Use Plastics), who are trying to see this reduced to 1,100.
The group, which was set up in 2018, aims to distill global figures of single-use plastic waste and show what the impact is locally.
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In Monaghan there are 12 towns that make up 36% of this waste.
Monaghan Town scores highest with 463 tonnes annually, followed by Carrickmacross on 303, and Clones on 101.
Speaking to Shannonside Northern Sound from Simon Ruddy from CUSP urged people to download their CUSP calculator app:
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