Waste Dumping and FlyTipping

Interesting brue, are you also responsible for the stiles? I have noticed that sometimes they have labels on saying they have been put in by various organisations / walking clubs.

Yes, but you sometimes get groups or individuals who want to erect kissing gates instead of stiles as they are easier to use so they offer to donate them and also PCs will assist. Depends also on livestock and what is more suitable, at home the sheep seem to operate their own escape systems...not to mention the humans who leave gates open.

Sorry this taking it away from fly tipping. 

I am retired now and go walking every day so I take a bag with me  and pick up all cans  and plastic bottles on my way just  trying to give something  back to our wonderfully country if more of  us did it we would soon clear up a lot the litter see bin it don't leave it please help  ?

Woke up to find somelow life has dumped a load of nasty rubbish in the pedestrian walkway through to our tiny little cul de sac. Scattered all over. Deep joy as a quick flick through found some incriminating name and address documents, so a phone call to our LA, and some obnoxious parasite is about to get their comeuppance. Can't stand littering.......

Drove over to my brother's house a few days ago and by the side of the road on a quiet country lane was enough bedroom furniture, mattresses and bed heads to furnish a small flat! The though that someone has had at least a Transit full of rubbish and just dumped it appalls me. 

Most of us who dog walk tend to have a bag of some sort to collect litter if seen, 

Most of the problems we have at home with litter is during school term times when a trail can be followed from our local co op down our road through a footpath across a field, a bridleway, past the church (very old)along by the cricket club, across a road and onto the academy(comp school) but it is not the "students"according to the Headmistress,even though there is not the problem out of school term times

Ps the actual distance is about half a mile

Restrictions on local tips don't help either - our closest one is open slightly more than half the week only, and unless one checks carefully, there's a risk of turning up & finding it closed, with the next nearest around half an hour away in daytime traffic. We've learned to check, but it's presumably a temptation to some just to dump it.

Then the tips insist on a limited number of visits within a 2 month period, or else you get classed as commercial & charged accordingly. When demolishing my own old garden shed and clearing stuff round it, I reached my limit before I'd finished. Again, there are those who'll just head off & dump it. (In my case it was a decent excuse for taking a break!)

Is it any worse today than it was a few decades back? I remember as a youth articles in the local press about asbestos and even radio active materials being fly tipped. 

I’m not sure that I’ve seen a rise in ‘fly tipping’ over the years. When I think back to my teens, there were no household waste sites, nowhere to drop off an old fridge or sofa. Back then you had to arrange and pay for the Council to collect large items. So lots of large items were just left at the roadside. But nor do I see the quantities of large items fly tipped, reducing. There really can be no excuse - until, as an organiser for local litter picks I found a complete car wheel with a tyre, dumped in a local recreation area. My HWRC wouldn’t take it, and the same applies to paint along with many flammable/ corrosive liquids. Which is presumably why it was fly tipped in a public space. Dog poo bags are thrown into bushes in disgraceful numbers and the detritus left by children and teenagers is a clear indication that their parents have bypassed instruction on acceptable behaviour. Ditches too are a favourite repository for anything that depositors can’t be bothered to take to their nearest HWRC. It’s a sad reflection on widespread avoidance of citizenship.

A very valid point.

What do most of us do when we dispose of white goods, a large piece of furniture or a mattress? If it won't fit in the 'tug' we use a trailer, beg or borrow a van, only to be told by some Jobsworth in a dirty green vest at the local tip "You can't fetch that on 'ere mate - you need a permit" or "That trailers got too many wheels so you're a commercial outfit and they're not allowed on 'ere"

If we do our hardest as decent citizens to dispose of said items only to meet with such resistance, it's no wonder the unscrupulous fly tip