Huge fly-tip dumped in Derbyshire country lane
It included rolls of 1970s-themed wallpaper, beer cans and bricks
A relatively short stretch of the A38 near us must have more junk than this cluttering up the verge. I'm not sure about the 1970s-themed wallpaper though, I don't recall seeing any of that.
9 comments:
I have no respect for fly tippers. But what do you expect when it is getting so difficult to get rid of rubbish?
Our local county council has several 'tips' but none are open 7 days a week, not all take all types of waste, you have to pay to get rid of certain waste, and they require you to pre-sort it to match their different skips before you get there.
Or you can hire your own skip, although once again there are limitations about what they will take.
I have no respect for fly tippers - but the solution is to make getting rid of waste easier rather than more difficult.
We get a lot of fly tipping round here. But the local landowners are wealthy and we are in a national park, so it gets dealt with quite quickly.
I don't want to stereotype any one section of the community, but I reckon travellers are more likely to do the fly-tipping than bloggers. Just a guess.
I think that seagulls are the culprits, they just don't like wallpaper these days!
DJ - we don't have too many problems but some councils seem to be more fanatical than others. I remember waste disposal people predicting the problem decades ago if disposal became more bureaucratic. Which of course it has.
Sam - I think you are right about likely culprits. Matlock car park is an example.
Scrobs - I'm surprised though because they usually eat anything.
It's almost as if previous genwrations decided that middens, rubbish heaps and general waste discards were better taken care of by a local weekly waste collection & disposal, but Nah!
Definitely falls into the category of yet another predictable surprise.
Whether it's true or not, I have no idea, but an ex colleague who lives in France told me that identified fly tippers are not only prosecuted but have their vehicles seized as they were used to commit a crime, even if they aren't the owners, i.e. rented or company vehicle. Perhaps it should happen here.
I think wallpaper is sacrosanct of course! Seriously DJ is right, it's the stupid bureauocratic rules that make waste disposal so difficult for ordinary householders and businesses. Like the occasion when I wanted to dispose of a bag of plaster board from a diy project at home, when I lived in London and was told by the recycling centre that I couldn't because of new EC rules. Net research revealed that there was only one plaster board disposal facility in.....England - Hull!
The only solution other than fly tipping was to put it in the wheelie bin.
Nessimmersion - weekly waste collection and disposal? Sounds radical to me.
Tammly - I don't know what they think people will do with such material apart from putting it in the wheelie bin. Then it goes to landfill, not Hull and they must surely know that.
Penseivat - sounds reasonable too, because the vehicle was used to commit a crime.
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