One aspect of the problem is that if someone flytips on private land, such as on a farm, it then becomes the responsibility of the landowner/farmer to clear up and councils will refuse to do anything ....... its the despair of many farmers and is costing them a fortune in labour and disposal costs.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Anything fly tipped on public land is the responsibility of the council to deal with. Anything on private land, such as beyond the farm gate that @wild edges mentioned, is the responsibility of the landowner. The council wouldn't remove that initially. They may order the land owner to clear it up and then act if that didn't happen. That can take months.
Our local council doesn't make disposal of rubbish easy. You have to pre-book, can only take one load per day, they close one day a week..... I'm certainly not trying to justify fly tipping but councils maybe need to look at why small scale fly tipping is on the increase. Large scale is criminal activity.
One aspect of the problem is that if someone flytips on private land, such as on a farm, it then becomes the responsibility of the landowner/farmer to clear up and councils will refuse to do anything ....... its the despair of many farmers and is costing them a fortune in labour and disposal costs.
There was a case highlighted on TV quite recently where a farmer let out one of his barns to a guy who claimed to need covered space for car repairs. When the farmer became suspicious of the amount of traffic he checked it out. The person who had rented was nowhere to be found and the barn was stacked with toxic waste. That apparently cost 10s of 1,000s to remove.
Well there was a nail in the tyre, on the upside, he was able to do a plug repair. On the downside it cost £18 and half a morning of my time that I will never get back, where do all these loose nails &screws come from on the roads? Ah don't tell me, fall off the trucks on their way to fly tip up at our local farm. 😡
Well I think I saw the ultimate in fly tipping this morning. I needed to be in town when the shops opened and from the car park on Whitesands in Dumfries you have to walk up hill via either of 2 narrow streets to the shops that are in a pedestrian area. At the top was a dumped Qualcast electric mower, sans cable and the offside front wheel missing. I wouldn't think there's a lawn within 500 yards of where it was parked.
It's happened to me a few times when my hearing was better. Rolled the car forward spotted the nail. Drove to tyre shop for them to pick it out just in case. Surprisingly, it always needed a repair - but then I'm a curmudgeonly old cynic.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There was a case highlighted on TV quite recently where a farmer let out one of his barns to a guy who claimed to need covered space for car repairs. When the farmer became suspicious of the amount of traffic he checked it out. The person who had rented was nowhere to be found and the barn was stacked with toxic waste. That apparently cost 10s of 1,000s to remove.
What a time to be alive
Not sure I'd want to!!!
Well I think I saw the ultimate in fly tipping this morning. I needed to be in town when the shops opened and from the car park on Whitesands in Dumfries you have to walk up hill via either of 2 narrow streets to the shops that are in a pedestrian area. At the top was a dumped Qualcast electric mower, sans cable and the offside front wheel missing.
I wouldn't think there's a lawn within 500 yards of where it was parked.