{"id":214009,"date":"2025-06-25T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214009\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T20:08:08","slug":"woking-borough-council-fines-for-people-who-dumped-waste-at-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214009\/","title":{"rendered":"Woking Borough Council fines for people who dumped waste at tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said the offenders were seen dumping the waste on footage recorded by nearby residents and CCTV cameras, despite &#8220;clear signage and regular collections&#8221; at the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This prompted the fines &#8220;as part of our commitment to tackling environmental crime&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Failure to pay fines can result in a further fine or imprisonment of up to five years, according to the council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ellen Nicholson, the council&#8217;s portfolio holder for climate change, said in April that people who misuse the site &#8220;create an eyesore, put additional pressure on council resources and risk the closure of facilities intended to benefit the community&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council said the offenders were seen dumping the waste on footage recorded by nearby residents and CCTV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-214009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}