‘People are now randomly dumping rubbish on the road-side with absolutely no care in the world’
Rubbish dumped outside Maindee primary school in Rodney Road, Newport(Image: Michael Enea)
A campaigner has slammed the latest example of fly-tipping blighting his city. Photos show a large amount of rubbish dumped during the Easter bank holiday outside the entrance to Maindee primary school in Rodney Road, Newport.
Conservative campaigner Michael Enea said the inner-city neighbourhood of Maindee is “under a sea of fly-tipped black blags and discarded rubbish”.
A Freedom of Information request from Mr Enea recently revealed Newport was the fly-tipping capital of Wales last year with 7,318 incidents – some 63% higher than pre-Covid levels. Make sure you never miss Wales’ biggest updates by getting our daily newsletter.
“The fly-tipping seen in the Maindee area of the city is totally out of control,” he said. “People are now randomly dumping rubbish on the road-side with absolutely no care in the world.
“The fly-tipping seen in the Maindee area of the city is totally out of control,” said campaigner Michael Enea(Image: Michael Enea)
“Newport council really need to get on top of this. We need to see council inspectors going through every dumped bag to look for addresses from discarded bills, letters and even medical prescriptions.
“They need to trace rubbish back to the source and issue heavy fines. Then name and shame repeat offenders. We need to [have] a zero-tolerance approach.”
Newport council recently told WalesOnline it was “as sick of fly-tipping incidents as everyone else” and “committed to stamping it out”.
And the Welsh Government said it was funding Fly-tipping Action Wales to stop the scourge.
You can read some of our previous coverage on Newport’s flytipping problem here.
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