OK, I know some of you hate the Tory Mail, but at least they did take the trouble to report this and put the picture in the paper.
Personally I would have fined him £2k at least. Then clean up and court costs on top.
The only way this will ever be stopped is by catching the culprits and giving them massive fines. If they do not have a permanent fixed address, they should be locked up until the fine is paid in full.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... 1-200.html
I would love to fid out who dumped a pile of old tyres on the grass verge beside Bullock Road, west of Sawtry. I would shop they in the blink of an eye. Selfish sods.
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A friend of mine took three broken patio slabs to his local tip, only to be told they charge for 'hard core'... this is why stuff is fly-tipped.
As I write this, the wife is watching the 'One Show', and they're doing a piece about fly-tipping, it's disgusting, but no mention about the cost of taking it to a council tip!
As I write this, the wife is watching the 'One Show', and they're doing a piece about fly-tipping, it's disgusting, but no mention about the cost of taking it to a council tip!
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Some wanker dumped an old caravan opposite our farm drive and set light to it , and as it was on private land 1 metre off the highway the council wouldn't move it so my neighbour had to pay to have it taken away , thieving scum want nailing to a gatepost. 
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Tosh! Legally it is construction and demolition waste and not household waste so why should the local tax payers pay because he decided to tart up his garden? The rates are there to pay for waste that will harm public health not the vanity projects of higher order apes. Fly tipping is caused because people won't pay for waste that should be lawfully paid for.Sleepy wrote:A friend of mine took three broken patio slabs to his local tip, only to be told they charge for 'hard core'... this is why stuff is fly-tipped.
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I have some spare 6" nails available, if I look hard, I can probably find some of the serrated mothers I used to fix the main roof timbers down on my timber house...diggermanbob wrote:Some wanker dumped an old caravan opposite our farm drive and set light to it , and as it was on private land 1 metre off the highway the council wouldn't move it so my neighbour had to pay to have it taken away , thieving scum want nailing to a gatepost.
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Might be tosh.. but it's greedy bastard councils that cause a lot of the fly tipping!Africa John wrote:Tosh! Legally it is construction and demolition waste and not household waste so why should the local tax payers pay because he decided to tart up his garden? The rates are there to pay for waste that will harm public health not the vanity projects of higher order apes. Fly tipping is caused because people won't pay for waste that should be lawfully paid for.
He.. like me, pays nearly £2000 a year, so taking a few slabs from a private house shouldn't be an issue!!
Some years ago, I found three motorcycle tyres down a lane near my home, being a good citizen, I collected them in my car and took them to the local tip, only to be told by some jobsworth.. we don't take tyres mate.. he advised me to take them back to where I found them.. that's good for the countryside isn't it?
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[quote="Sleepy" post=503776
Might be tosh.. but it's greedy bastard councils that cause a lot of the fly tipping!
He.. like me, pays nearly £2000 a year, so taking a few slabs from a private house shouldn't be an issue!!
Some years ago, I found three motorcycle tyres down a lane near my home, being a good citizen, I collected them in my car and took them to the local tip, only to be told by some jobsworth.. we don't take tyres mate.. he advised me to take them back to where I found them.. that's good for the countryside isn't it?[/quote]
As someone who has to put up with the crap and rubbish from fly tipping because of the stupid attitude of the local Council, I agree Sleepy! Once the new regs came in fly tipping rocketed and I am not sure it hae been cost effective with the local Council having several pickups on permanant clean ups...
We used to pick up rubbish, old furniture, tyres etc dumped on the nearby country lanes and take it to the tip. We don't bother now, I have the local Council Dept number on speed dial... All because of our version of the jobsworth at the local tip said it was industrial waste.
Stick a disc cutter through the tyres and lob em in the wheely bin!! :whistle:
Might be tosh.. but it's greedy bastard councils that cause a lot of the fly tipping!
He.. like me, pays nearly £2000 a year, so taking a few slabs from a private house shouldn't be an issue!!
Some years ago, I found three motorcycle tyres down a lane near my home, being a good citizen, I collected them in my car and took them to the local tip, only to be told by some jobsworth.. we don't take tyres mate.. he advised me to take them back to where I found them.. that's good for the countryside isn't it?[/quote]
As someone who has to put up with the crap and rubbish from fly tipping because of the stupid attitude of the local Council, I agree Sleepy! Once the new regs came in fly tipping rocketed and I am not sure it hae been cost effective with the local Council having several pickups on permanant clean ups...
We used to pick up rubbish, old furniture, tyres etc dumped on the nearby country lanes and take it to the tip. We don't bother now, I have the local Council Dept number on speed dial... All because of our version of the jobsworth at the local tip said it was industrial waste.
Stick a disc cutter through the tyres and lob em in the wheely bin!! :whistle:
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So where do you draw the line on what's a vanity project and what's simply tidying up your garden? Broken slabs in a garden where either young kids play or pensioners totter around could lead to broken bones and high costs for hospital treatment or the same slabs could be part of a job someone is being paid to carry out and logically the slabs should be treated as 'commercial waste' and disposal paid for but the problem for the guys at the tip is deciding which category the car full of rubble comes under.Africa John wrote:Tosh! Legally it is construction and demolition waste and not household waste so why should the local tax payers pay because he decided to tart up his garden? The rates are there to pay for waste that will harm public health not the vanity projects of higher order apes. Fly tipping is caused because people won't pay for waste that should be lawfully paid for.Sleepy wrote:A friend of mine took three broken patio slabs to his local tip, only to be told they charge for 'hard core'... this is why stuff is fly-tipped.
I recently had to use two different tips to get rid of a load of chipboard that the previous owner of our house had used to cover the garage floor. The first one let me take two car loads down then suggested I used another one about five miles away because everything is on cctv and the council might have noted my car registration number and back charged me. If I'd had to pay to dispose of it I'd have torched it at the bottom of the garden and slung the ashes in the bin so it would still be free to dispose of but one way was a bit more environmentally friendly than the other :whistle:
