More council rubbish
BBC NEWS | UK | Bid to stop households flytipping
Councils are being told to do more to prevent householders dumping their rubbish illegally.
The government has issued guidelines for councils to stop people flytipping - a problem which costs about £2.5m a month to clear up nationally.
Better collection services and extended opening times at local tips are among suggestions to ease the problem.
What are we actually getting at the moment? Instead of weekly collections, fortnightly; instead of collection of all our rubbish a pedantically controlled 180 litre maximum, and the bin lid must be closed so nothing long either. No longer cheerful binmen who were willing to help now we have rubbish inspectors to check what sort of rubbish we throw away and to give lifestyle advice. No wonder more gets dropped in hedgerows.
And as for getting tough of flytipping - sometime age I reported a dumped engine with some bags of rubbish - to be fair Kennet were happy to pick it up as it added to their weight of recycling which they need to get Government grants - but when I pointed out that in the rubbish there were several letters with someone's name and address on who might know where the rubbish came from I was told as I had looked at it I had interfered and only their professionals should do that and so they wouldn't follow it up...