{"id":520378,"date":"2025-10-22T19:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520378\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:35:16","slug":"the-people-dumping-crap-on-the-streets-are-living-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520378\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The people dumping crap on the streets are living among us’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The illegal disposal of household, industrial, commercial or other waste costs local authorities tens of millions of pounds\"CllrCllr Joe Johnson on a walkabout session around his ward(Image: Joe Johnson)<\/p>\n

People in Merseyside are becoming increasingly frustrated after a spate of fly tipping incidents. Areas of Bootle<\/a> are now subject to regular reports of rubbish dumping, with those responsible acting with apparent impunity.<\/p>\n

Sefton<\/a> Council has previously said the resources needed to tackle illegal waste are directly impacting the budgets of other vital services in the borough, but has committed to more enforcement action. In March, a \u00a3400 Fixed Penalty Notice was issued to a person caught fly-tipping on Kirkstone Road and the local authority said it\u2019s looking to ramp up enforcement actions.<\/p>\n

The latest incident of fly tipping was flagged by Cllr Joe Johnson who said he receives regular complaints from people in his ward about rubbish on the streets, and shares their frustration.<\/p>\n

During a walkabout around his ward today (October 22), Cllr Johnson posted to his Facebook<\/a> page and updated his constituents about an ongoing issue in Red Lomes and the dumping of a large mattress and other household furniture, he wrote: \u201cI reported it nearly six weeks ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have chased this 3 times and asked [the local authority] why it still has not been cleared. I have again just emailed the cabinet member for cleansing to ask him to look at this and sort it out.<\/p>\n

\u201cTHIS SAID (alongside my frustration and that of residents) we must NOT forget this is down to our own local residents living amongst us and dumping their crap on our streets.<\/p>\n

“Whilst it is for the council to clear it this up, there must come a time when residents start calling it out and not simply blaming the council.<\/p>\n

\"FlyFly tipping left on Red Lomes in Bootle(Image: Joe Johnson)<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember we did not dump it there, and yes it\u2019s taking us a little longer to get it cleared, but come on please let\u2019s all take ownership of this and get back to less fly tipping.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will keep working hard for you in the community but the money spent on this could be better spent elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

The councillor\u2019s social media post prompted several supportive comments, including one from a Michael McCabe: \u201cSpot on. The people causing the problems, are the residents amongst us. They don\u2019t give a toss. It\u2019s become the normal and it\u2019s ingrained.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deby Murphy also commented: \u201cThe residents need to be called out as we are not here to pay and tidy up other people\u2019s mess. If you know who is doing this report!\u201d Anne Clifton added: \u201cVery right its time people did face penalties for this such a shame its a minority doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The illegal disposal of household, industrial, commercial or other waste is a serious criminal offence and costs local authorities tens of millions of pounds. Figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs show there were 3,903 fly-tipping incidents in Sefton in 2023.<\/p>\n

Cllr Johnson said he regularly conducts walkabouts to identify issues causing concern to local residents, including fly tipping, anti-social behaviour and housing. The elected member also offers direct advocacy and submits complaints to the local authority and has committed to keeping people updated, including on the Red Lomes rubbish dumping incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The illegal disposal of household, industrial, commercial or other waste costs local authorities tens of millions of poundsCllr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[2648,748,393,728,4884,105,6333,179,12460,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-520378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-bootle","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-housing","15":"tag-liverpool","16":"tag-sefton-council","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115419502165436607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520378","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=520378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}