A mile long illegal waste tip in Essex.

[Foppo]

How did they get away with this and where is our police to stop this happening.

These scumbags don't give a tosh the harm they cause to people and the environment

[markcoznottz]

Just like in Italy, although it's mob run there, chances of the organised crime being identified and prosecuted for this??

[rs1952]

More to the point, how the screaming feck can somebody manage to dump that much stuff and not be spotted doing it?

It's not as though it all came off the back of one single flatbed at 2 o'clock in the morning

[CamMoreRon]

This is probably one of the most irritating things about living in Essex.

I'm not saying it was gyppos, but..

[Digga]

CamMoreRon said:

I'm not saying it was gyppos, but..

...the BBC casually mention they've been on site three times in the last year or two.

Even if it wasn't all them, they're often catalysts to other fly tipping.

[Hooli]

Foppo said:

where is our police to stop this happening.

Hiding, real criminals are scary dangerous people so plod avoid them.

[Lost soul]

rs1952 said:

More to the point, how the screaming feck can somebody manage to dump that much stuff and not be spotted doing it?

It's not as though it all came off the back of one single flatbed at 2 o'clock in the morning

[mcdjl]

Are we sure this isn't actually an improvement story? Wtaching the video (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30211574) at 29s it looks like the dump is now here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4776478,0.239289...
Presumably someone has spent a fair chunk getting that green! I can easily see how no one noticed few extra lorries around!

[wolves_wanderer]

Digga said:

CamMoreRon said:

I'm not saying it was gyppos, but..

...the BBC casually mention they've been on site three times in the last year or two.

Even if it wasn't all them, they're often catalysts to other fly tipping.

You pair of massive, disgraceful racists. How dare you suggest our hardworking community of intinerant labourers was to blame

http://i.imgur.com/cPw5oGk.jpg

[markcoznottz]

Just like in Italy, although it's mob run there, chances of the organised crime being identified and prosecuted for this??

[Jasandjules]

wolves_wanderer said:

You pair of massive, disgraceful racists. How dare you suggest our hardworking community of intinerant labourers was to blame

Quite. I drove past a caravan site the other day and it was like Singapore, everything neat and tidy, no fires, no dogs running loose, no bedraggled horses tied up etc..

[Squiggs]

rs1952 said:

More to the point, how the screaming feck can somebody manage to dump that much stuff and not be spotted doing it?

It's not as though it all came off the back of one single flatbed at 2 o'clock in the morning

It's low lying land so really it's waste land/flood plain in the middle of no-where.
But with it being very close to the outskirts of London I'm sure as soon as it was found to be an (un)suitable free dumping ground the word would have spread like wild fire throughout the 'want your drive repaired, your garden cleared (etc, etc,) on the cheap' community.
Actually it wouldn't surprise me if once they thought they were onto a 'good' thing they hadn't started up a cheap skip hire company and this is the result.

[Lynchie999]

Jasandjules said:

wolves_wanderer said:

You pair of massive, disgraceful racists. How dare you suggest our hardworking community of intinerant labourers was to blame

.. no dogs running loose,

Yes, because they have them tied together!

[Foppo]

The cheap hiring skip company is making sense>One million quid to get writ of the rubbish.Now you know where the rate money is spend on.

[anonymous-user]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/28...

^ There's one problem - they just don't have the manpower to enforce and prosecute a lot of waste crimes anymore.

[Riley Blue]

Fly tipping enforcement is a local authority responsibility rather than Environment Agency.

[anonymous-user]

Riley Blue said:

Fly tipping enforcement is a local authority responsibility rather than Environment Agency.

Same problem then, really.

[hidetheelephants]

This is a direct result of our arse-about-face waste laws; bin charging for waste and add it onto VAT.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Symbolica said:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/28...

^ There's one problem - they just don't have the manpower to enforce and prosecute a lot of waste crimes anymore.

No the problem is ideological, mostly EU imposed, extortionate charges for landfill.

[Squiggs]

Foppo said:

The cheap hiring skip company is making sense>One million quid to get writ of the rubbish.Now you know where the rate money is spend on.

It's going to be £1m that 'we' will be robbed of via tax, rates or whatever.
But £1m clear-up sounds reasonable ..... most of it looks to be commercial waste, somehow it's got to be sorted (there could be asbestos, poisons, etc), gathered, removed and then sorted again to be broken down into recyclable lots.
There's a lot of work that goes into the 'disposing' of commercial waste (and even a skip full of 'house clearance') and that's why trying to get rid of just a skip load costs so much.