Rubbish Dumping Does Anyone Care?

[Frank-the-Wool]

We have a farm down a country lane that is in an attractive area but is quiet so suffers from Fly tipping. Today while travelling along the lane I saw a car in the distance slow down and throw something out of the window.
I stopped and retrieved the bag of McDonalds leftover rubbish, but was too far away from the car to get the number.
However I looked inside the bag and there was the receipt with the order and the cardholder verification. The receipt had the date and time so I am sure the card owner could be easily traced if anyone so wished to do it.

The police will say they do not have the time or resources and McDonalds will say that under data protection they cannot release the identity of the person who bought the meal. So people can continue to leave their rubbish in our countryside with complete impunity.

Perhaps I am just getting old and irritable but this really annoys me and feel that when there is evidence like this then the people should be heavily fined.

 

[David.]

It will never improve until fast food outlets are made liable for their dumped packaging.

 

[Goweresque]

I had two more cases of fly tipping on the road by my place over Christmas, luckily (for me) on the roadside not over the hedge.

I have to give Swindon council a big thumbs up though, they are very good at collecting fly tipped rubbish on the roadside, they have an online notification system and I sent the email on New Years Day and it was cleared on the 3rd. I had managed to find some letters with a name and address on them in one of the bags, but even though I put that in the email, they haven't asked me for the details

Its the same person doing it every time, I'm sure, there's been about 10 cases on a one mile stretch of road since last spring. I don't think its a householder, I think its a cowboy waste disposal outfit/person.

 

[Scholsey]

With society becoming ever increasingly cashless why cant all bags/packaging become traceable to a transaction, surely a barcode could be used to individually identify it and log it on a huge database somewhere which stores everything for say 12 months? If any packaging becomes waste/litter then the purchaser becomes liable for the clean up cost, be it off the side of a mainroad, a park or washed up on a beach? Everyone bangs on about global warming but i would say the islands of plastic waste/litter strewn all over the place is a bigger issue thats far easier to address.

 

[Godber]

We get the same problem...very annoying . Apparently in our neck of the woods the council will go after fly tippers on private land so this could be a route to try. They have lent covert cameras, the ones in coke cans, to catch them.

 

[jade35]

With society becoming ever increasingly cashless why cant all bags/packaging become traceable to a transaction, surely a barcode could be used to individually identify it and log it on a huge database somewhere which stores everything for say 12 months? If any packaging becomes waste/litter then the purchaser becomes liable for the clean up cost, be it off the side of a mainroad, a park or washed up on a beach? Everyone bangs on about global warming but i would say the islands of plastic waste/litter strewn all over the place is a bigger issue thats far easier to address.

When having to drive slowly along our main roads in winter it is horrifying how much rubbish has been thrown out of vehicle windows and, equally as disgraceful, caught by the wind and blown out of lorry backs/bins/skips etc.. It is all very well for people to cry at footage from Blue Planet etc. but they also need educating that small steps closer to home will have a major effect on the environment as well.

 

[Scholsey]

When having to drive slowly along our main roads in winter it is horrifying how much rubbish has been thrown out of vehicle windows and, equally as disgraceful, caught by the wind and blown out of lorry backs/bins/skips etc.. It is all very well for people to cry at footage from Blue Planet etc. but they also need educating that small steps closer to home will have a major effect on the environment as well.

My father was sat outside a newsagents once and some proper scummer chucked a fag butt out of the car whilst he was waiting aswell so dad walked out and threw it back in at him, the bloke ranted at dad for 5 mins and eventually dad drove off and the bloke chased him along the road for 200 meters leaving his kids in the car, unfortunately i think a large percentage of the population are beyond educating and fines/benefit reductions would be only way. Would keep people on their toes if they could see they lost £89 off their February pay cheque for the 2 bags of mcdonalds and the mattress they left in a layby.

 

[Will 1594]

I had two more cases of fly tipping on the road by my place over Christmas, luckily (for me) on the roadside not over the hedge.

I have to give Swindon council a big thumbs up though, they are very good at collecting fly tipped rubbish on the roadside, they have an online notification system and I sent the email on New Years Day and it was cleared on the 3rd. I had managed to find some letters with a name and address on them in one of the bags, but even though I put that in the email, they haven't asked me for the details

Its the same person doing it every time, I'm sure, there's been about 10 cases on a one mile stretch of road since last spring. I don't think its a householder, I think its a cowboy waste disposal outfit/person.

Take it to the addresse dump it back in their drive , just gathered up another load of hedge clippings and other shite this morning ,4 batteries in the mix so they will get weighed in , looking forward to finding an address then will load up and go pay them a visit

 

[essexpete]

I had two more cases of fly tipping on the road by my place over Christmas, luckily (for me) on the roadside not over the hedge.

I have to give Swindon council a big thumbs up though, they are very good at collecting fly tipped rubbish on the roadside, they have an online notification system and I sent the email on New Years Day and it was cleared on the 3rd. I had managed to find some letters with a name and address on them in one of the bags, but even though I put that in the email, they haven't asked me for the details

Its the same person doing it every time, I'm sure, there's been about 10 cases on a one mile stretch of road since last spring. I don't think its a householder, I think its a cowboy waste disposal outfit/person.

Oh you mean a traveller who will play the race card when you refer to them as pikey?

 

[Goweresque]

Oh you mean a traveller who will play the race card when you refer to them as pikey?

You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment

 

[Robert K]

This is a layby just down the main road from the farm [emoji35]

 

[Hindsight]

We have a farm down a country lane that is in an attractive area but is quiet so suffers from Fly tipping. Today while travelling along the lane I saw a car in the distance slow down and throw something out of the window.
I stopped and retrieved the bag of McDonalds leftover rubbish, but was too far away from the car to get the number.
However I looked inside the bag and there was the receipt with the order and the cardholder verification. The receipt had the date and time so I am sure the card owner could be easily traced if anyone so wished to do it.

The police will say they do not have the time or resources and McDonalds will say that under data protection they cannot release the identity of the person who bought the meal. So people can continue to leave their rubbish in our countryside with complete impunity.

Perhaps I am just getting old and irritable but this really annoys me and feel that when there is evidence like this then the people should be heavily fined.

You my be getting old and irritable but I am fully with you. I despair how much of this takeaway rubbish is chucked. Now the grass verges have died back it is quite disgraceful how much rubbish has been revealed on the road into our village. Hey ho I have no answer unfortunately.

 

[Goweresque]

Take it to the addresse dump it back in their drive , just gathered up another load of hedge clippings and other shite this morning ,4 batteries in the mix so they will get weighed in , looking forward to finding an address then will load up and go pay them a visit

I've checked, its a block of flats, the envelopes are all unopened, I'm guessing its a tenant who's done a runner and the landlord has paid someone to removed all the stuff they left behind.

 

[kfpben]

We have a small industrial estate opposite with scaffolders, steel fabricators and a couple of mechanics. The rubbish they chuck out their vans makes me fume. It is worst on our lane and then lessens the further you get away from the units.

I had a word with the owner of the estate (who lives on site). He said he’d give everyone a good talking to. I think it has improved a bit since but there are still a hardcore few lobbing their lunchtime detritus into the hedgerows. Very depressing.

 

[borderterribles]

We have a farm down a country lane that is in an attractive area but is quiet so suffers from Fly tipping. Today while travelling along the lane I saw a car in the distance slow down and throw something out of the window.
I stopped and retrieved the bag of McDonalds leftover rubbish, but was too far away from the car to get the number.
However I looked inside the bag and there was the receipt with the order and the cardholder verification. The receipt had the date and time so I am sure the card owner could be easily traced if anyone so wished to do it.

The police will say they do not have the time or resources and McDonalds will say that under data protection they cannot release the identity of the person who bought the meal. So people can continue to leave their rubbish in our countryside with complete impunity.

Perhaps I am just getting old and irritable but this really annoys me and feel that when there is evidence like this then the people should be heavily fined.

Give Maccy D's some grief about it. They have to clean their litter up within a certain vicinity of their outlets, and whilst I appreciate that you probably aren't within that vicinity, they hate bad press!
In a former life , the Missus and I used to be McD's mystery shoppers

 

[Yale]

What about plastic feed and mineral buckets strewn around the countryside?

We can’t point the finger if farmers are just as bad.

We have a bit of junk around the place but the farm next door is a blot on the landscape with literally acres of junk.

 

[No5]

This is a layby just down the main road from the farm [emoji35]

Wish ours was as clean as yours. We get this every few weeks, council come and clear it then a few days later its back again. The rubbish along the lane in the hedges and ditches is horrendous. My dad walked down the lane while here over christmas and said he lost count of the empty beer cans in the verge. So not only flytipping but drink driving at the same time.

 

[Netherfield]

There's a layby just along the road from here, frequently used by truckers, I'm walking the dog one day, a little truck which is a regular there around 12.30, passenger gets out with a polystyrene tray and a can walks to the end of the layby and tries to hide his rubbish among the grass. There's a council supplied rubbish bin at the other end of the layby which he couldn't be bothered to walk to, but the best bit is the vehicle is sign written with 'Recycling Specialists , we dispose of your your business refuse'

Whipped out my mobile and rang the number on the side, chap on the other end sounded genuinely appalled, he must have got someone on the mobile because the stuff had been cleared when I came back.

 

[pauld]

Problem is not just illegal tipping. We farm a lot of floodplain and have a massive clear up to do each spring . Allsorts of rubbish as well as the usual cans and bottles. Presumably it would normally go down to the sea but after a flood recedes it ends up on our meadows. I can only think there are a lot of people who think nothing of chucking their rubbish into a watercourse.

 

[Smith31]

I'm against littering and fly tipping but it's unfair to blame McDonald's or take aways for what their customers chose to do with their litter.

It should be a.straight £100 fine for anyone caught littering and £1000 fine per offence for anyone caught fly tipping plus their vehicle confiscated and sold to fund the clear up.