Council won’t pick up flytipped rubbish

Council will not do it, the only option, contact the landowner or move it to a public footpath. you might get way with only having part of it on the footpath.
Do it soon, as others will see it and they will start dumping bags.
Don’t know who is the land owner. Unless each of the properties that have a garage or parking space co own the area.
 
Cops don't tend to be involved in fly tipping which might explain why they're not bothered by it. It's normally enviromental health (I think it's called) who deal with it, and may call on the police for assistance but the police themselves don't deal with it.

Given that we've had 12 years of services being cut to the marrow it's not really surprising that they're not interested in relatively smaller amounts, or where it's probably not a danger to the public/blocking public rights of way, they simply don't have the staff to deal with most of it, so they tend to go for where there is repeated dumping/signs it's being done by someone doing it commercially.
Environmental Health deal with fly tipping and search for names, addresses, invoice numbers etc. Then contact the addresses. Or find an invoice, contact the company to backtrack any more info from the invoice.

As a litter womble, I found a box of takeaway leaflets tossed under a bush. Rang the takeaway. They said they gave a couple of men to deliver in the next two villages. Which they didn’t.

Plus found stuff with people’s addresses on. A few photos of these and the pile of stuff I found them on, sent on LoveCleanStreets app. Which sent to the relevant council.
 
Many local authorities collect non fly-tipped old appliances for free - I know ours do as the previous occupant of house had a dishwasher they left in front garden which was collected 1 week after we moved in by the same bloke who brought new wheelie bins round.

If it were me, report it as fly tipped on the nearest street, then hopefully they will turn up and either see it nearby down the alleyway and take it, or contact you asking where it is, where a simple story of "oh, it was blocking the pavement for wheelchair users so a neighbour must have moved it behind the houses" will I'm sure have them take it anyway.
 
You need to claim them asap, if Russia start lobbing nukes at us you can climb into the fridge and use it as a mini nuclear bunker. They can survive a direct hit and being launched several miles from ground zero. It worked for Indiana Jones in that film.
 
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So you fly tipped your stuff and complain when the under funded council doesn't clear up after you?

Is this like when the public don't put their own shopping back on the shelves?
 
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In my area you can pay the council a small fee (£10 or so) to have fridges etc collected from outside your house and recycled. Obviously this isn't ideal for fly tipping as its designed for a home owner to get rid of stuff. But you could consider it if you run out of options.

Another option of course is to get some mates around and move it onto the public street.
 
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You need to claim them asap, if Russia start lobbing nukes at us you can climb into the fridge and use it as a mini nuclear bunker. They can survive a direct hit and being launched several miles from ground zero. It worked for Indian Jones in that film.
Is that the middle eastern version of the original Indiana Jones? :D
 
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