Benno Gross brings tidings of horror from the beautiful Comeragh Mountains. The litter dumpers are back, and some are operating on an industrial scale.
The Comeragh Community Development Group, of which he is secretary, last year mobilised 250 people and removed more than 100 tonnes of assorted garbage from the mountain and forest area which is a major visitor amenity.
As it prepares for its second major clean-up operation over the Easter weekend, Mr Gross describes some of the stomach-churning evidence of human irresponsibility, and it appears a minority of farmers are heavily implicated.
"Especially along the forest roads, the evidence of people's selfish and anti-social behaviour is shocking," he said. "In many cases the findings are so grotesque and sickening that we have to call in the county council to help us in removing the stuff. Heaps of rotting sheep carcasses were found off the scenic Marmar Road last autumn. Among the sheep and the garbage, only a few feet away from the Dalligan river, was a half-full one-gallon container of sheep dip.
"Had the poison found its way into the river, animals drinking the water downstream would be seriously affected, and public health would be at risk as well. More recently two dead calves were found bagged and dumped off a forest road near Leamybrien. The smell oozing from these bags was indescribable.
"Six 10kg bags of butchered bones were tossed over the wall at the lay-by on top of the Marmar Road. It was so disgusting that the only way to remove them was to wait for the maggots to clean the bones of meat.
"Another two bags were located in the Kilclooney picnic area, a popular route to the Coumshingaun Lake. Last week two bags of whole turkeys were discovered near the car-park at the Mahon Falls.
"Since our last clean-up, building materials and household goods have been ditched, together with a whole lot of cookers, refrigerators and stoves, fertiliser and animal feed bags. Black plastic silage wraps are clearly visible in the trees and scrubs."
Not all of those dumping rubbish get away with it. Mr Gross says "a prominent businessman" from Waterford city was spotted by one of the group's members dumping garbage near Leamybrien. He was reported to the council and given an on-the-spot fine. He was also ordered to take the garbage to the dump in Dungarvan.
Recently Waterford County Council has been using private detectives to obtain evidence against illegal dumpers. This seems to have been effective in the vicinity of the towns, but not all the remote country roads can be covered all the time.