I was watching the Laura Kuenssberg programme this morning but kept getting distracted by the image of flooded London and drowning horses in the background. What's that all about?
I just had to report two more fly tipping spots that need cleaning up. They didn't do the last one properly so I hope they sort it out this time. It's such a pain to report too. You have an account with the council with all your details but they still make you input everything each time, all your contact details etc even though it's basically irrelevant, you have to look up the What Three Words as well as pinning it on a different map, then resize the photos because they can't accept big file sizes or just have software that resizes it for them.
I also want to sign up for their litter picking program so they provide me with the special bags and pick them up from carparks etc to save me lugging them home. You have to fully register with Keep Wales Tidy though and do the safety tutorial and risk assessment forms before they'll give you the bags though. They want you to wear high-vis too which makes me feel like I'm a community service sex offender or something.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@wild edges it seems your council website is as good as ours. I went on it and it said to register to avoid having to enter details every time. I registered. Next time I used it I logged in and surprise, surprise it asked for all my details when I wanted to get a new recycling box.
Re the fly tipping - our council has a map that you just stick a marker on, so it isn't too bad, but if the mess is on two sites in roughly the same place, you can't put two markers on it, which is something that's changed. How tidy do they think these morons are that they only dump their sh*te in one spot? I had to report some a couple of weeks ago - both sides of the road, and some was in the field which would have meant the people clearing it would be climbing over barbed wire etc. Due to the rough weather, the bags hadn't stayed in one piece either. Marvellous. I often wonder if I'm the only person who ever reports stuff too, judging by the length of time it often takes to clear. I haven't tried adding pix to reports as I'd need to take the camera, so I don't know how good or bad that is. That's a ridiculous amount of hoops to jump through @wild edges. It'll be elf and safety of course....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I just can't get my head around fly tipping. Littering makes sense, you're lazy and selfish so just drop it on the floor, but fly tipping seems to be like an extreme sport now with participants going to great lengths to cart rubbish to stupid places and going for some personal best throwing distance. There's a black bag thrown into the middle of a bramble patch right by the school gates. They could have just left it on the pavement but decided to throw it instead. It's still clearly visible and they must know someone will have to go and get it. I wonder if these people are just clinically brain dead and think that no one goes into the woods or looks a few metres beyond the roadside. It worries me that people this stupid are allowed to drive cars in the first place.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The large scale stuff I can understand @pansyface, and especially the 'house clearance' thing, but I'm talking about a few bin bags, or enough to fill a small-ish van at most.
The ones I mentioned earlier had a bizarre addition. One bag in the field [full of plastic/card takeaway plates etc ] but the one across the road was in front of a gate which is part of an old farm building [eyesore doesn't even begin to describe this ] and after I reported it, I walked past the next day and the rubbish was about twenty feet inside the gate. Therefore, the council workers didn't pick it up, and it's still there now. What's even weirder is that someone had also tied a bag round the gate. Nope - no idea I think I might contact the council re that building. Pigeons nest/roost in one end of it which is open to the road. You can imagine what that looks like....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We picked up a slow puncture on the way home yesterday. Our route home meant we were passing a garage so I thought we had better put some air in. The machine wouldn't take cash, card only £1 a go. I couldn't adjust the pressure setting. At first I think I was letting more air out than was going in, but eventually got the pressure up to a reasonable level. When you pay that much I think at least it should be properly maintained. Now I have to go to tyre place to get it sorted properly.
£600m a year I think the one fly tipping spot I keep reporting is partly linked to drug use as I've found boxes from growlights and bits of hydroponic equipment there. My suspicion is that someone owns a rental property and after kicking people out they bag up all their rubbish and dump it up there.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
£600m a year I think the one fly tipping spot I keep reporting is partly linked to drug use as I've found boxes from growlights and bits of hydroponic equipment there. My suspicion is that someone owns a rental property and after kicking people out they bag up all their rubbish and dump it up there.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I had to report some a couple of weeks ago - both sides of the road, and some was in the field which would have meant the people clearing it would be climbing over barbed wire etc. Due to the rough weather, the bags hadn't stayed in one piece either. Marvellous.
I often wonder if I'm the only person who ever reports stuff too, judging by the length of time it often takes to clear.
I haven't tried adding pix to reports as I'd need to take the camera, so I don't know how good or bad that is.
That's a ridiculous amount of hoops to jump through @wild edges. It'll be elf and safety of course....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The ones I mentioned earlier had a bizarre addition. One bag in the field [full of plastic/card takeaway plates etc ] but the one across the road was in front of a gate which is part of an old farm building [eyesore doesn't even begin to describe this ] and after I reported it, I walked past the next day and the rubbish was about twenty feet inside the gate. Therefore, the council workers didn't pick it up, and it's still there now. What's even weirder is that someone had also tied a bag round the gate.
Nope - no idea
I think I might contact the council re that building. Pigeons nest/roost in one end of it which is open to the road. You can imagine what that looks like....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Now I have to go to tyre place to get it sorted properly.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...