Last week 23rd – 29th April 2007 was National Fly-Tipping Awareness Week.

Fly-tipping is a huge blight across the UK and its getting worse, the cost £72 a minute – that’s how much fly-tipping is costing taxpayers.  As part of the Countryside Alliance’s Fly-tipping Scrap It campaign, a week of high-profile local activities took place across the UK to highlight this great scourge.

The unlawful dumping of rubbish robs an area of its natural beauty and spoils our enjoyment of towns and countryside it can pose a threat to humans and wildlife and also damages our environment.

“Many people believe that fly-tipping is something they can get away with and that the victim is faceless. This is nonsense,”

said Sara Rutherford, Southern Regional Director for the pressure group Tipping Point, a Countryside Alliance special report available click HERE

Island Pulse Author: Vexillarius wrote August 31st, 2006:

Dear World, Is it all a waste?
 
We’ve all seen it.  Rubbish in the hedgerows, a fridge in a field gateway, a scabby old mattress on a roadside verge, even a car abandoned, number plates removed (and probably engine and body numbers obliterated) in a lay-by.
 
I am not saying that our Island is knee deep in the stuff but when it does happen, it is an eyesore.  The despoiling of the countryside with household rubbish is a real problem.  The council are working on it and where they can trace the origin of the dumped material, they take action.  It is not, however, an easy task.
 
To read Island Pulse Vexillarius “Letter from a Small Island is it all a Waste?” Click
HERE

The Isle of Wight Council has responsibility for acting on reports of flytipping on council owned land; to both remove the waste and to locate and prosecute the offenders.  Where the waste is hazardous the council has a responsibility to ensure public safety until such time as the waste can be removed.  For more details Click HERE

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