36 fly-tipping incidents in East Lancashire every day (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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36 fly-tipping incidents in East Lancashire every day
8:00am Friday 2nd September 2011 in News
BLIGHT Rubbish dumped in East Lancashire
THERE were 13,000 incidents of fly-tipping in East Lancashire last year – the equivalent of 36 every day – shock new figures show.
The clear-up costs are more than £500,000 per year in this area, according to research by campaigners at the Countryside Alliance.
The organisation said the ‘enormous scale’ of fly-tipping is taking a heavy toll on public finances.
Alice Barnard, Countryside Alliance chief executive, said: “Fly-tipping blights our countryside, ruining the beautiful views for which Britain is rightly famous, endangering wildlife and habitats, and costing the taxpayer millions of pounds to clear up.
“The Government promised to end this scourge when they published the Waste Review this summer.
“This is a promising start.
“However, they need to work closer with cash-strapped councils.
“We need a co-ordinated plan which ensures people who fly-tip are caught and punished, and provides greater support to local authorities and landowners who bear the brunt of the cost of clearing up the mess.”
New figures show that between April 2010 and March 2011 there were 3,883 incidents of fly-tipping reported in Blackburn with Darwen.
In Burnley there were 4,249, Hyndburn 1,248, Ribble Valley 43, Rossendale 591, and Pendle 2,865.
Coun Faryad Hussain, of Blackburn with Darwen Council, said: “We want to send out a clear message that fly-tipping will not be tolerated.
“If anyone is found to be fly-tipping, we will investigate and prosecute you.
“There is a good chance you will be caught – so don’t do it. There is no hiding place.”
In Burnley a campaign against fly-tipping has been launched.
Coun Neil Mottershead, the council’s community safety executive member, said: “We know people want us to tackle littering, fly-tipping and dog fouling, because they spoil our neighbourhoods, and that’s exactly what the council is doing.
“We’ve made creating a cleaner, greener and safer borough our priority.
“And the fact that, week after week, we’re at court, prosecuting those that dump their rubbish, or don’t clean up after their dog, shows we’re taking that commitment very seriously,” added Coun Mottershead.
Comments(24)
Noiticer
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9:00am Fri 2 Sep 11
jaffa90
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9:01am Fri 2 Sep 11
happycyclist
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9:06am Fri 2 Sep 11
happycyclist
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9:39am Fri 2 Sep 11
“If anyone is found to be fly tipping, we will investigate and prosecute you. There is a good chance you will be caught – so don’t do it. There is no hiding place.”"
Yeah, right. Empty words.
mavrick
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10:02am Fri 2 Sep 11
common sense does not apply.
Pan-cake
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10:47am Fri 2 Sep 11
Here's the link -
www.tinyurl.com/save
ourtip
midas
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11:01am Fri 2 Sep 11
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take the Peseverance mill site in Padiham, its black bin bags and carrier bigs that get thrown in there as much as big items! The back streets in Burnley Wood and trinity have numerous yards that are filled with household waste that could either go in a bin or a recycling bin!
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Perhaps the next FOI request should differentiate between the types of flytipping.
burner
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11:59am Fri 2 Sep 11
olbertz2002
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12:27pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Black Car Guy.
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12:48pm Fri 2 Sep 11
thermio
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12:54pm Fri 2 Sep 11
I can assume from this that the costs for removal of this commercial waste is so prohibitive that it is worth the risk to dump (or pay someone to dump) around the countryside.
I would like to see the fly-tippers made to pick their cr@p out of the thorns with their bare butt cheeks whilst being pelted with bags of canine faecal matter (which, handily, is always available dangling from tree branches).
buckoff
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1:27pm Fri 2 Sep 11
midas
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2:16pm Fri 2 Sep 11
olbertz2002 wrote:So that makes it ok to throw your rubbish into someone elses back yard so that they have to pay for you?
this is the result of council charging to take household rubbish away who is going to pay £10 an item to be taken away when you can dump it for free eh? everyone knew this was going to happen when the charges came in force ....
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with that logic who is going to pay £10 for a bottle of wine when you can just steal it from the shop?
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Its anti social and its criminal!
bikerjohn_uk
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2:31pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Pan-cake
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5:08pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Black Car Guy. wrote:Everyone on here seems to be of the same mind. So do something! Like signing the online petition I have found.
It will only get worse when they close more recycling centres. Also they do not allow vans in so they will be the main culprit in fly tipping.
Here's the link -
www.tinyurl.com/save
ourtip
Black Car Guy.
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6:31pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Pan-cake wrote:I have signed it. Also at my local tip too.
Black Car Guy. wrote:Everyone on here seems to be of the same mind. So do something! Like signing the online petition I have found.
It will only get worse when they close more recycling centres. Also they do not allow vans in so they will be the main culprit in fly tipping.
Here's the link -
www.tinyurl.com/save
ourtip
Pan-cake
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7:37pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Black Car Guy. wrote:Thank you!
Pan-cake wrote:I have signed it. Also at my local tip too.
Black Car Guy. wrote:Everyone on here seems to be of the same mind. So do something! Like signing the online petition I have found.
It will only get worse when they close more recycling centres. Also they do not allow vans in so they will be the main culprit in fly tipping.
Here's the link -
www.tinyurl.com/save
ourtip
district01
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11:17pm Fri 2 Sep 11
woolywords
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9:08am Sat 3 Sep 11
Seems such a wonderful thing to me.
Then where does it go, the Council.
Wasn't a protesting petition raised regarding a dome and went to Council, to be utterly ignored, even though the article itself was 'illegal'?
Darwenbert
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10:58am Sat 3 Sep 11
jessjade
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4:32pm Sat 3 Sep 11
bikerjohn_uk wrote:i to live in burnley,how much as our shiney new recycleing centre cost the tax payer when there was nothing at all wrong with the old one
Luckily for me, I live in Burnley which has a massive shiny new recycling centre! You can all come and use it if you like!. And it doesn't cost to take a van with your HOUSEHOLD rubbish, all you have to do is ring the county council and get a permit, which is free. Plus, those of you with smart phones can get an app for both Android and iPhone called "Love Clean Streets" which allows you to report incidents of fly-tipping to you local council. I've use dit several times and each incident has usually been dealt with within 24 hours.
DaveBurnley
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9:28am Mon 5 Sep 11
jessjade wrote:There was a great deal wrong with the old recycling centre, if you happened to visit when a skip was being changed then the whole site was closed whilst the lorry had to manoeuvre the old skip out and replace it with a new one. This doesn't happen at the new site due to it's design.
bikerjohn_uk wrote:i to live in burnley,how much as our shiney new recycleing centre cost the tax payer when there was nothing at all wrong with the old one
Luckily for me, I live in Burnley which has a massive shiny new recycling centre! You can all come and use it if you like!. And it doesn't cost to take a van with your HOUSEHOLD rubbish, all you have to do is ring the county council and get a permit, which is free. Plus, those of you with smart phones can get an app for both Android and iPhone called "Love Clean Streets" which allows you to report incidents of fly-tipping to you local council. I've use dit several times and each incident has usually been dealt with within 24 hours.
Also access is much easier, less blocking in of cars by thoughtless parking.
anniejj
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2:37am Wed 7 Sep 11
Coeur de Lion says...
8:59am Fri 2 Sep 11