Good. Crush any vehicles found to be involved and put anyone caught on 200 hours litter picking with a tattoo on their forehead saying something like “I’m a litter lout & selfish cunt”.
Get the council’s to stop making to so difficult for normal people to dispose of waste and adding lots of extra and sometimes expensive hurdles to the small companies trying to do waste disposal correctly. It’s an example of councils trying to save money but end up spending more money trying to clean it up and stop it.
This absolutely needs more regulation. Waste removers need to be properly vetted and registered to prevent fly tipping down the line.
Stop charging to dispose of waste.
Years ago when you could take anything to the tip to be disposed of free of charge, fly tipping was virtually unheard of.
Veola are doing a good job of feeding Londons wildlife by having all waste put out on the street for days on end , specially lovely to see eveything dragged across the roads. It gives me a warm feeling inside knowing that it’ll all be picked up by ocean clean up crew in a few months.
I feel for people impacted by fly tipping, it’s infuriating.
I live in a nice(ish) little market town which,like a lot of areas of provincial England, has a hidden (or ignored) rural poverty issue. Most of the houses on my street are big, detached, attractive places in good nick but the one over the road from me has been turned into flats (badly) and has mostly social tenants.
One day a few years ago, one of the landlords wanted to turf a tenant out so literally just got some hired goons to pitch up one day and chuck all of their stuff out. Did they rent a skip or van and at least take it away? No, just plonked it all down in the alleyway between next door’s garden fence and the side entrance to the building.
It sat there for *months*, probably over a year. You couldn’t see it from the road (you could from our bedroom window though) so it was only my family and the tenants affected so of course the local tory council could not have been less interested if they tried and it was way down the list of priorities for all 3 of the police officers this town appears to have.
Really started to impact my mental health to be honest, having to see the random tangle of mattresses and other crap every time I opened my curtains in the morning but it was worse for the tenants who had to pick their way past it every morning. Imagine bringing family or friends back to your flat? Of course they were only tenants not real people so no one cared.
Then, out of the blue one day it all just disappeared. Never been adequately explained why or how but it went. Fucking infuriating that it took do long to clear up.
Also we used to have a little recycling centre which had to close because it just became a fly tipping mecca. This is why we can’t have nice things I guess.
What’s missing is education. If people were raised from the start to clean up after themselves they’d be less likely to dump shit everywhere. But I guess organising litter picks at schools like they do in continental Europe would have parents calling the media and the police over little Tarquin being forced to pick up after somebody else.
Echo the sentiments regarding the tips. Also, I don’t know what I need to do to get my green bin actually picked up. Drowning in recycling over here. I’d chuck it all in the normal waste bin but it only fits two bags per week, for a three bedroom house.
Newham council decided to not only underpay their Dustbin crews, they also decided to stick a crapton of cameras on the lorries and sack anyone that takes extra, before you could clear a lot of waste for the residents for small change, Now our glorious labour council will sack you for accepting a drink from the residents because you’re directly cutting in to their profits.
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They charge £20 per five items, and we have some crews that will flatout REFUSE to take something not listed you put 5 items down, ONLY 5 will be taken, no if or buts, the staff are either scared or lazy
I live in Spain now and we have the big bins at the end of the street, not at each house. You can dump seemingly anything by them and it gets taken away. For builders etc they have to get a skip and a permit or whatever but for households it’s easy. I dumped an entire bathroom suite by the bins last month, council truck came along and took it the next day (not the normal squisher truck). No issue. Theres always random shit there like mattresses, kitchen cupboards etc. My council tax is also only €750 a year for a 4 bed house.. the normal bins are emptied every other day in the winter and every day in the summer.
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Good. Crush any vehicles found to be involved and put anyone caught on 200 hours litter picking with a tattoo on their forehead saying something like “I’m a litter lout & selfish cunt”.
Get the council’s to stop making to so difficult for normal people to dispose of waste and adding lots of extra and sometimes expensive hurdles to the small companies trying to do waste disposal correctly. It’s an example of councils trying to save money but end up spending more money trying to clean it up and stop it.
This absolutely needs more regulation. Waste removers need to be properly vetted and registered to prevent fly tipping down the line.
Stop charging to dispose of waste.
Years ago when you could take anything to the tip to be disposed of free of charge, fly tipping was virtually unheard of.
Veola are doing a good job of feeding Londons wildlife by having all waste put out on the street for days on end , specially lovely to see eveything dragged across the roads. It gives me a warm feeling inside knowing that it’ll all be picked up by ocean clean up crew in a few months.
I feel for people impacted by fly tipping, it’s infuriating.
I live in a nice(ish) little market town which,like a lot of areas of provincial England, has a hidden (or ignored) rural poverty issue. Most of the houses on my street are big, detached, attractive places in good nick but the one over the road from me has been turned into flats (badly) and has mostly social tenants.
One day a few years ago, one of the landlords wanted to turf a tenant out so literally just got some hired goons to pitch up one day and chuck all of their stuff out. Did they rent a skip or van and at least take it away? No, just plonked it all down in the alleyway between next door’s garden fence and the side entrance to the building.
It sat there for *months*, probably over a year. You couldn’t see it from the road (you could from our bedroom window though) so it was only my family and the tenants affected so of course the local tory council could not have been less interested if they tried and it was way down the list of priorities for all 3 of the police officers this town appears to have.
Really started to impact my mental health to be honest, having to see the random tangle of mattresses and other crap every time I opened my curtains in the morning but it was worse for the tenants who had to pick their way past it every morning. Imagine bringing family or friends back to your flat? Of course they were only tenants not real people so no one cared.
Then, out of the blue one day it all just disappeared. Never been adequately explained why or how but it went. Fucking infuriating that it took do long to clear up.
Also we used to have a little recycling centre which had to close because it just became a fly tipping mecca. This is why we can’t have nice things I guess.
What’s missing is education. If people were raised from the start to clean up after themselves they’d be less likely to dump shit everywhere. But I guess organising litter picks at schools like they do in continental Europe would have parents calling the media and the police over little Tarquin being forced to pick up after somebody else.
Echo the sentiments regarding the tips. Also, I don’t know what I need to do to get my green bin actually picked up. Drowning in recycling over here. I’d chuck it all in the normal waste bin but it only fits two bags per week, for a three bedroom house.
Newham council decided to not only underpay their Dustbin crews, they also decided to stick a crapton of cameras on the lorries and sack anyone that takes extra, before you could clear a lot of waste for the residents for small change, Now our glorious labour council will sack you for accepting a drink from the residents because you’re directly cutting in to their profits.
​
They charge £20 per five items, and we have some crews that will flatout REFUSE to take something not listed you put 5 items down, ONLY 5 will be taken, no if or buts, the staff are either scared or lazy
I live in Spain now and we have the big bins at the end of the street, not at each house. You can dump seemingly anything by them and it gets taken away. For builders etc they have to get a skip and a permit or whatever but for households it’s easy. I dumped an entire bathroom suite by the bins last month, council truck came along and took it the next day (not the normal squisher truck). No issue. Theres always random shit there like mattresses, kitchen cupboards etc. My council tax is also only €750 a year for a 4 bed house.. the normal bins are emptied every other day in the winter and every day in the summer.