{"id":878830,"date":"2026-04-07T22:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/878830\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:17:15","slug":"stonehenge-fly-tipper-fined-2k-for-irresponsible-disposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/878830\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonehenge fly-tipper fined \u00a32k for &#8216;irresponsible&#8217; disposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A fly-tipper has been fined \u00a32,000 for illegally dumping waste less than two miles from the nearest household recycling centre.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wiltshire Council&#8217;s environmental enforcement officers captured the resident on CCTV in January, disposing of the waste around Tidworth and the Stonehenge area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tLKothcg4AI\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The captured footage, external<\/a> clearly showed the person&#8217;s face, vehicle registration, and the disposal of multiple items, including black bags of household waste and chairs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Martin Smith said: &#8220;Choosing instead to dump waste is irresponsible, damages our environment, and leaves others to deal with the consequences&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fly-tipper has been fined \u00a32,000 for illegally dumping waste less than two miles from the nearest household&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-878830","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\/116365744235080699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878830","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=878830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}