Fly Tipping Hits 10-Year High

Where I live, the rules and restrictions on taking rubbish to the tip are ridiculous.

They film your number plate when you arrive, you sometimes have to show a utility bill so they know you are local and allowed to use the tip.

They also limit the amount of times you can visit to twice a week.

Surely they realise that the money they are having to pay to clear up fly tips is more than the cost of relaxing rules at the local tips. So what if someone visits the tip ten times a week, the rubbish has to go somewhere!

The rules have also changed where i live so you have to take a council tax bill - I can't see this as being a benefit only a hindrance. I used to take rubbish to work with me and take it to the tip on my lunch break as when i finish work my local would be closed. I can't do this anymore as it's not my local so now i struggle.

I partially blame the councils for not allowing people to dispose of their rubbish properly . a few weeks ago a friend of mine who has small works van took an old TV from his house to the tip, nothing else just one single TV, they refused to allow him to dump it as he was in a van. He came home transferred it to the boot of his car returned to the tip , dropped of no questions asked, other probably would have just fly tipped it somewhere. They are an absolute nightmare at out Tip watching your every move,refusing but refusing to help anyone on Health and Safety grounds. Councils certainly don't make it easy for people to dispose of their rubbish

We had some guys fly tip in the middle of our road once, right down the middle. The idiots left paperwork ripped up in adminst all the rubble and crap from which we managed to extract a phone number (local business) who sent them back to pick it up. They didn't want to be confronted so came back at 3 in the morning but as luck would have it their vehicle lights shone in the window and woke us up. So we went to have a word. Got a wee bit heated but I don't think they'll be doing that again. Idiots.

I don't run a business but making it difficult and expensive for businesses to dispose of items so they end up flytipping and costing more money to clean it up is clearly a poorly thought out policy especially as we need to reduce costs to businesses. Better to put a tax on large appliances and other goods that are expensive to recycle at the time of purchase. So the payment is there. Especially if we are trying to stop damaging the environment the more expensive such goods are the more likely they will keep them longer and have them repaired rather than replaced so attacking the problem from different angles.

People who fly tip should be prosecuted and fined but it’s difficult to catch them in the act! Councils aren’t doing our society any favours now they’ve introduced charges to collect unwanted furniture and tips have rules too. It’s easy to fly tip around here with lots of forest roads and car parks.