Announced in September of last year, the revisions affect 90 streets in the south city centre, including the Grafton Street and Temple Bar neighbourhoods.

At the time, Dublin City Council's Head of trash Management claimed that utilising plastic bags for business trash disposal was seriously contributing to litter issues since seagulls and rodents were tearing the bags open.

Barry Woods added that since the RETURN program was implemented, people searching for cans and plastic bottles in their bags has become a major challenge for those attempting to maintain the municipal program.

The council claimed that it was one of several measures to help clean up Dublin City and was a reaction to the area's growing foot traffic and activity.

Approximately 1,000 streets in the city were designated as bag collection areas in 2016, which granted companies a derogation to leave their rubbish outside for collection in plastic bags.

The adjustments are part of a review of that decision. For the area between Grafton Street and the Dublin City Council Civic offices on the quays, that derogation has now been reversed.

Last year, several other initiatives to make the city centre cleaner were also revealed, such as hiring 100 employees, investing €8.5 million in the garbage department's car fleet, and hiring more litter wardens for the evening hours.