A mile long illegal waste tip in Essex.
Discussion
Mr GrimNasty said:
No the problem is ideological, mostly EU imposed, extortionate charges for landfill.
Bing! And just wait and see what happens when councils start charging by the kilo for your wheelie bin: I can just see Joe Scrote and the "I'm all right Jack" crowd paying that. Not. Mr GrimNasty said:
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. ^ There's one problem - they just don't have the manpower to enforce and prosecute a lot of waste crimes anymore.
I can't speak for Essex, but closer to me Somerset CC have introduced charges for people who use their recycling centres. Now they're on the news complaining about an increase in fly tipping in the county.
Well, who'd a thunk it
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
I think it was only when it got to a mile long that someone suggested it may not be just a regular Purfleet scene. It's not as though it all came off the back of one single flatbed at 2 o'clock in the morning
rs1952 said:
Mr GrimNasty said:
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. ^ There's one problem - they just don't have the manpower to enforce and prosecute a lot of waste crimes anymore.
I can't speak for Essex, but closer to me Somerset CC have introduced charges for people who use their recycling centres. Now they're on the news complaining about an increase in fly tipping in the county.
Well, who'd a thunk it
Expect the local council enforcement will find any named business waste eg letterhead and make a visit to the said business with a threaten of a fine for incorrect disposal.
As they did with my business when some prick removed our waste from our commercial bin so they could dump an armchair in it.
As they did with my business when some prick removed our waste from our commercial bin so they could dump an armchair in it.
Hooli said:
Foppo said:
where is our police to stop this happening.
Hiding, real criminals are scary dangerous people so plod avoid them.However, I don't like to rely on the police and I can't ask employees to intervene as, IMHO, it is above and beyond anyone's pay grade to risk a beating in order to save company property from theft or damage, so I do it myself. I know I will likely be thrown off PH for saying this, but I am neither strong nor powerfully built and do not have a goatee (although, in my defence, I do hold a couple of directorships) so all this sort of face to face discussion is high risk and, frankly, frightening.
The law is a disgrace, given the damage and litter concerned with some (not all) traveller's camps. I know and the police know, it is not normally possible to move the camp immediately (the norm is a 3 day turnaround with the courts at best so I simply make sure I'm out there in a polite "don't give us trouble and we'll leave you alone" sort of way. Thus far it has worked and we've avoided the nuisance other businesses have suffered. In this day and age in the UK, with a lack of waste land to use and with our increasing awareness of the damage done by litter and fly tipping, there isn't really any place for this sort of throwback lifestyle, any more than I would be tolerated hunting my dinner with a spear, dressed in animal furs on Richmond Park.
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