The Government, under the Waste Management Acts, Litter Pollution Act, Protection of the Environment Act and other legislation, has the necessary power to prohibit unnecessary generation of waste. The most recent Act allows the Minister the powers to provide for requirements on the nature of waste, to specify certain designs of package and to control waste importation, distribution, supply and sale. It is time for the Minister, now that he has taken the power of the elimination of waste from locally elected councillors, to use the numerous powers he has vested in himself, county managers and officials to clean up the countryside.