Fly Tippers
The route that I walk most days takes me along a few quiet country lanes. We don't have too much of a problem with commercial fly tippers, obviously we get the odd car chucking a few bits out of the window to slowly fill up the ditches and after Christmas there's always the odd bin bag full of rubbish tipped but in general it isn't too bad, although when they cut the verges and clean out the ditches it can be an eye opener as to just how much rubbish is hidden away in brambles and long grass.
But, the other day I saw the most rubbish on a country lane that I had seen for years.
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Obviously this was commercial rubbish from a local garage.
There were 4 piles of tyres and rubbish along a couple of hundred metres of lane.
All in all I think that there were about 70 tyres.
The last pile is by the telegraph pole in the distance.
Then 1/2 a mile further up some household rubbish that must have appeared on the same night probably from the same person.
I guess that there isn't a lot that can be done about it if no one sees them do it and there are no cameras around for miles.
Today cranfield had another litter picking, bags and bags collected. Can't blame storm Doris as it is mainly from car windows ie take away packaging.
ReplyDeleteWe have tipper loads of rubbish apparently dumped on the cycle track to Marston.take away customers maybe could use their own packaging from home - picnic containers etc.
Most of the take away rubbish is from a fast food drive through. I think they should be charged and extra £1 like a deposit and make them hand it back in when they next visit. All that money collected then should be passed back to the council to clear the rubbish from roads. Ditto things like tyres, charge an extra £10 and get that back when you replace the tyre. There needs to be a route back to the manufacturers so they can take there old stuff back.
DeleteThat's just disgraceful - I just don't understand what sort of person would think that doing this is ok :(
ReplyDeleteLaziness and the fact it costs a small business to dispose of stuff. We all pay for it when the council has to clear it so I think the council was wrong to charge small businesses to dispose of this stuff. Not that charging would solve laziness of course.
DeleteI don't condone it, but I think it gets worse every time out local council makes it harder to get rid of rubbish. There's more and more stuff the local waste centres won't take (but somehow illogically are still legal to sell - do they expect you to store it at home forever?), no trailers, registration required... it's no surprise that some people will pay someone else cash in hand to make the problem go away, and that person often as not is an unscrupulous fly-tipper.
ReplyDeleteFor commercial companies it's in some ways easier but also more expensive due to fairly extensive waste tracking laws. Again, large companies have to comply but for small business owners who only care about the bottom line I suspect there's a lot of don't ask don't tell outsourcing of waste disposal to cheap 3rd parties.
There should be an easy way to dispose of anything that you can legally buy, with the recycling cost factored into the sale price not an extra cost incurred at end of life, to remove incentives to skip the legitimate route. And if it truly can't be disposed of then it shouldn't be sold.