Fly tipping

Hades said:
I'm really not surprised there is so much fly tipping nowadays. I took a small bag of general rubble and an offcut of plasterboard to my local dump a few weeks ago and was charged almost £20. Although I appreciate that plasterboard has tight recycling requirements it was just a small offcut. The amount of waste for the £20 was just not in proportion at all. No wonder people regularly fly tip.
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krooton said:
Weird, we drove to out local recycling centre (which has landfill/tip options too) and recycled/dumped a car's worth for free.
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Some council tips charge for rubble and plasterboard now if not all.

Do what I did when my bathroom ceiling collapsed, I just put a bit in the general waste bin each week under the normal waste until I had cleared it all. Not proud but it's a doggie dog life.
 
Surely it would be cheaper for councils just to let people tip this stuff for free, instead of paying out 5 figures every time someone fly tips in the countryside? :/
 
LeeUK said:
Some council tips charge for rubble and plasterboard now if not all.

Do what I did when my bathroom ceiling collapsed, I just put a bit in the general waste bin each week under the normal waste until I had cleared it all. Not proud but it's a doggie dog life.
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ha yes ,thats what i would do for sure
 
LeeUK said:
Some council tips charge for rubble and plasterboard now if not all.

Do what I did when my bathroom ceiling collapsed, I just put a bit in the general waste bin each week under the normal waste until I had cleared it all. Not proud but it's a doggie dog life.
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Isn't the quote "Dog Eat Dog Life" or have I been wrong all this time?
 
I had to look up what fly tipping was. A very strange term if you ask me, and it doesn't exist on Wikipedia but instead it redirects me to "illegal dumping".

So if the OP's tyre was dumped somewhere in public as opposed to private, so say on the roadside or in a river, would that be fly tipping?
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I had to look up what fly tipping was. A very strange term if you ask me, and it doesn't exist on Wikipedia but instead it redirects me to "illegal dumping".

So if the OP's tyre was dumped somewhere in public as opposed to private, so say on the roadside or in a river, would that be fly tipping?
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The term "fly tipping" is referenced multiple times on the Wikipedia page for illegal dumping, so saying it "doesn't exist" there isn't really correct.

The etymology is explained on that very page.

And yes, if the tyre was dumped in public, this would be fly tipping. Have you been living under a rock or something? I've lived and worked all over the UK and the term is pretty much universal.
 
The_Abyss said:
Why would you even consider doing this?
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Free flower pot, extra thermal insulation if needed, and perfect for if you want to grow potatoes, just keep stacking them up. :D

stockhausen said:
I wish the Police would do something like this in the UK - £41,000 would pay for a lot of CCTV.
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Just my 2 cents, we don't need more cctv cameras in the UK, there is already roughly 1 camera per 11 people in the country, and they are useless, and I doubt they would get many cameras for £41k, after all the assessments, overheads, contracts etc, we'd be lucky to see any at all.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I had to look up what fly tipping was. A very strange term if you ask me, and it doesn't exist on Wikipedia but instead it redirects me to "illegal dumping".

So if the OP's tyre was dumped somewhere in public as opposed to private, so say on the roadside or in a river, would that be fly tipping?
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No fly tipping is when you have loads of flys and you tip them.
 
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