Fly tipping

[canonman]

Hi All
Just heard a report that states it cost West Midland £3.5 million clearing up after people fly tipping last year.
I know Coventry has a Recycling Waste Disposal Plant and a very good one I assume most places in the West Midlands have, so what makes people just dump their rubbish on someone else’s doorstep and not take it to the tips, I bet they would be the first to complain if someone dumped it on their doorstep.
There is no charge to the public for tipping in Coventry, unless you are a commercial company with rubbish,
What sort of environment do these people want to live in?
I don’t want to make this a long winded thread; I know I could go on for ages on this subject
So this got me wondering how many Recycling Plants we have around the country, and if you suffer from fly-tipping in your area.
Mick

[Wild-Woman]

Think it's mainly these people who set themselves up as 'house clearance' etc, buy a banged up old van that's probably illegal, charge a person £50 to clear stuff then go off and find the back of an industrial estate or country lane and dump it. They've got £50 and they don't have to pay anything at the other end at a recycling unit. It digusts me every time I see it.
The bigger companies are sometimes as bad, as seen on TV. Anything to make a fast buck. ww

[Wild-Woman]

I forgot to say, we have a lane which leads out onto the motorway, which always has piles of old lorry tyres, that the council have to clear at our expense, obviously from some thoughtless lorry firms that won't pay for proper disposal of them. ww

[life through a lens]

WRT to fly tipping I know some councils employ detective teams to go through the waste to try and find any incriminating evidence that may lead them to the source. I saw it on a TV programme and think they were targetting areas well known for being used as fly tips.

Where I live the council have now issued everyone with 2 wheelie bins, one for general residential waste and another for recycling (paper, cardboard, plastic etc). On the recycling collection days they will also take away garden waste if bagged properly. On top of that there are probably 3 council run tips within 10 minutes of me (makes it sound like a right dump ) and several recycling points.

On saying this I still see things dumped in verges and think this is caused by charges for disposing of certain types of waste, plus the elusive 'clearance cowboys'. Tyres are the worst due to local companies charging you to get rid of them whilst they are then being paid to recycle the tyres.

Its something that needs more attention from local councils IMO.

Olly

[glsammy]

How about our Council? We've been recycling for years, always separating our rubbish into paper, plastics, tin etc. Our Council started their own re-cycling scheme with different coloured bins, BUT we're not allowed to separate the rubbish! All the recyclable has to be all mixed together in the one bin. We we're warned we'd be fined if we separated it!! Don't you just love 'em!
As for fly tipping, it and they are beyond contempt. The Government share part of the blame for charging so much for commercial waste removal. It was obvious the one man and his Van would be more than tempted to save the cost at the environments expense.

[nightshade]

I was looking for bats in a lane not far from me and there were bags and bags of rubbish outside the one house in the lane,apparently travellers had stopped overnight and left rubbish which the householders cleaned up themselves rather than wait for the council to show up.
Not all travellers are like this just an annoying few

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by nightshade

I was looking for bats in a lane not far from me and there were bags and bags of rubbish outside the one house in the lane,apparently travellers had stopped overnight and left rubbish which the householders cleaned up themselves rather than wait for the council to show up.
Not all travellers are like this just an annoying few

whilst it is undoubtedly true that some travellers fly tip , round here a police initiative put in covert cctv near an illegal traveller encampment , to catch them in the act, and instead caught a local buisness tipping tyres presumbably hoping that the travellers would be blamed.

[Boddie]

Personally I think people that fly tip have a big fat chasm where their brain should be. I class these muppets as actually being mentally devoid. I cannot imagine what posesses someone to want to deface the countryside in such a manner. In my opinion they should be put down (in prison), or best still do community service at the weekends and during the evening picking up litter. But then again, as you know I am into my graffiti, which is not to everyones taste.