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\"BBCBBC<\/p>\n

Croydon Council spent about \u00a31m last year clearing fly-tipped waste<\/p>\n

A south London council has announced a crackdown on fly-tipping by hiring new enforcement officers to trace those who are dumping rubbish on the streets.<\/p>\n

Croydon Council, which spent about \u00a31m last year clearing fly-tipped waste, said its enforcement team has the ability to hand out on-the-spot fines for suspected crimes.<\/p>\n

Thornton Heath resident Animot Otunuga said the fly-tipped rubbish on her street was “disgusting”<\/p>\n

Jason Perry, Croydon’s mayor, said: “We are clearing rubbish, but that’s not the point. We need to get to who is actually doing this, and stop them.”<\/p>\n

\"Animot<\/p>\n

Thornton Heath resident Animot Otunuga said fly-tipping in the area was getting worse<\/p>\n

Across the street from Ms Otunuga’s home is a pile of rubbish, including a mattress, a chair and food waste.<\/p>\n

“The stench is too much,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I wake up in the morning open my blinds and the first thing I see is all this rubbish, it’s very disgusting.”<\/p>\n

Ms Otunuga, who has lived in Thornton Heath for more than 20 years, added: “It’s getting worse. There’s a mattress there, you’ve got all sorts of things that are meant to be in the bins.<\/p>\n

“It’s not a good sight at all.”<\/p>\n

Ms Otunuga said she had never seen anyone dumping the rubbish, but added: “One of the reasons why people dump things is because the council is not picking up the bins regularly.”<\/p>\n

\"Dumped<\/p>\n

Croydon’s mayor attributed the issue of fly-tipping to a “lack of social responsibility”<\/p>\n

As well as the mess, clearing fly-tipped waste is a drain on Croydon Council’s resources and Mr Perry said the authority would be taking a “zero tolerance approach” to the issue.<\/p>\n

“We’ve put new officers on the street – eyes and ears on the street – who are going through the rubbish, looking for those addresses, so we that can go back to people find them and prosecute them,” he said.<\/p>\n

He attributed the issue of fly-tipping to a “lack of social responsibility”.<\/p>\n

“What we are finding increasingly is that people literally are dumping on their own doorsteps,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It’s not a minor problem. It’s a really nasty experience for local residents.”<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

Jason Perry said fly-tipping was a “nasty experience” for Croydon residents<\/p>\n

One of the council’s enforcement officers, Ken Thompson, said the things he had seen in fly-tipping incidents could be shocking.<\/p>\n

“Raw meat is the worst one,” he said. “It is more serious as that will come from a commercial premises.”<\/p>\n

Bedbugs and human waste were also commonly found in fly-tipped rubbish, he explained.<\/p>\n

“It’s a health hazard,” Mr Thompson said.<\/p>\n

\"Ken<\/p>\n

Ken Thompson said he had seen raw meat and human waste being dumped in the borough<\/p>\n

He added that dumped waste left people with a negative view of their local area.<\/p>\n

“You should be proud of where you live, no matter where it is,” he said.<\/p>\n

On-the-spot fines for fly-tipping have risen from \u00a3400 to \u00a31,000, but the council also wants the public’s help.<\/p>\n

Mr Perry said: “We do want CCTV images. What we’re now looking at is doing naming and shaming. <\/p>\n

“We’re actually going to put this stuff online… so we can follow these things through.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Croydon Council spent about \u00a31m last year clearing fly-tipped waste A south London council has announced a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-374304","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115093765429753455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374304","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=374304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}