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LandRoger:
I dont think its right to Generalise and say: if the councils made it easier to tip: Here in Wiltshire the councils have provided plenty of sites - and thankfully we dont suffer this kind of thing (too much) unless the Pikeys
have paid us a visit :roll:  :roll: We have a T A chopper that patrols Salisbury plain looking for this sort of thing+ people being stupid and leaving the Byways etc,

C C:
Twice I've been in the vicinity of someone about to fly-tip. (why back a transit 20yards down a muddy lane) but each time they scarpered as soon as they clocked the Disco parked nearby.

What really amazes me is the lengths some people will go to to dump stuff. sometimes I come across a pile of mostly domestic rubbish over mile down a quirt narrow road that is almost a dead end. (unless you like opening and closing crossing gates)
Yet the council dump (sorry Recycling center) is only 2 miles away and unlike some places the chaps there are quite helpful.

Dirty Gertie:
Filthy, disgusting pigs!!
As for blaming the councils for this; WHY???
Domestic refuse is FREE to deposit; householders already pay for that facility in their council tax; if you have a 'commercial' vehicle, the permit to deposit domestic refuse is still free
The problem lies with 'contractors' (all that debris looks like plaster bags etc to me) - these people are in business to make money; they charge their customers a rate for the job, which includes the disposal of all rubbish; they simply think they can get away without paying commercial waste disposal rates and dump it in the countryside instead; once more leaving the onus for cleaning it up on the householders of the area; whether it be the likes of us, taking on the job of keeping the lanes clear, or council workmen whose wages we pay for in our council tax; scabbing gits!!! :evil:

dave_2A_2.25Turbo:
But  some local councils do make it virtually impossibl;e to use the tip, whether or not you've paid your Council Tax.

I can't get the Disco in ours - height barrier at 6' in one and 5'8" at another. And no they will NOT move them out of the way.

Neither allow vans so the Astra is out.

No walking-in of stuff.

So I'm left with the option of the MX5 - don't think so!

Grantham is totally different- quite a culture shock.

6' 6" height - trailers allowed ("six wheeler/ 5 ton a time of garden waste if you want mate"

They help you unload :shock: (and not just to check what you're dumping!) and are generally really helpful - on the second to last run I did last week, the guy on 'Green Waste'  asked if I'd got much more - then went and found me 3 bulk bags, saying it would be easier foor me to load, and easier for him/me to lift out and tip into the compactor.

I was quite stunned, TBH - the difference between the two areas is amazing.  And then Kent wonders why they have so much fly-tipping.....

Sooty:

--- Quote from: "Dirty Gertie" ---
Domestic refuse is FREE to deposit;
--- End quote ---

That is very true, but not that simple.
For example, I have a number of trailers, and about 6 months ago spent the weekend clearing out some of the rubbish fom my back garden.
The best trailer for the job was my box trailer so I loaded it with a mixture of garden rubbish, bits of wood, building rubble, bags of old clothes, bits of car (metal and plastic) etc until it was full.
By this time it was Sunday evening and I work 08:30 to 17:00 Mon-Fri and every other Saturday so the following Sunday I glued the full trailer on the back of the motor and off I poped to the nearest council rubbish tip.
Can't come in here mate you live in the wrong postcode, so off I trundle to the next nearest tip, hay presto you can't come in here mate as you live in Derbyshire and this is a Staffordshire tip.
So where do I go then I asked, don't know mate (by this time I was no mate of his but better not upset him) you will have to ring the council and ask.
Monday dinner I ring the council, 20 minutes (your call is important to us thankyou for holding)(and giving Orange lots of pennies)but now I know which tip to go to 13 miles away not 5 or 7 like the two I tried before.
Saturday morning off I went, trailer in tow 13 miles only to be told by Hitlers grandson you can't come in here with that HORSE BOX ( I am 5ft 9in and I can't stand up in the dam thing so if I managed to shoehorn my sisters 16.3 pony in it the RSPCA would shoot me and rightly so but hay ho off I go back home to move the ribbish from my box trailer to my camping trailer (well half of it as the camping trailer is not as big as the box trailer (sorry horrse box)) and off I go.
Another 13 miles and join the que at the tip 1/2 hour queing and there's Adolf junior "what you got in there mate" mixed stuff I said "sorry mate you can only stop and off load at one skip (therefore one type of rubbish) and then move on.
At this point I lost it and drove into the middle of the tip site and proceeded to off load the trailer bit by bit into the relevent skips while Adolf goose stepped up and down shouting about calling the police and haveing me charged with obstrution while the rest of the people drive around me and dumped there one bag of grass cutting out of there Ford Mondeo boot.
When I had finished I carmly got back into my car and drove away to the shouts of "I HAVE GOT YOUR NUMBER AND YOU WILL NOT COME IN HERE AGAIN"
Not been there since, the second load I went to the nearest one and told them the wrong post code.
FREE I will send you the fuel bill, pay my rates to have it collected yea right.
If you think I made this up I promise you it is true.
Whils't I would never ever fly tip and would report anyone I found doing it I can understand why sometimes.
Sooty now gets down off his soap box and goes for a cold shower.
Sorry about that Janie but as you can see it still makes me see red when I think about it.

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