Fly tipping scumbags.

[Stu Faulkner]

I have a van reg from our CCTV.

Any idea how to find out if there local by tracing the reg or do I just go to the police?

[Quinten]

Report to 101, or more likely, the council. DVLA wont be very helpful to find out the owner, unless it was on your private land

[John Williams (Panda) - Joint Manchester AO]

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/v888-request-by-an-individual-for-information-about-a-vehicle

[dombanks]

Was it you local meat pie and locksmith merchants?

If you can figure out if it belongs to a business have a go on Facebook and twitter

[Stu Faulkner]

Unmarked white van with a private plate.

There's a tip 1/4 mile down the road, lazy gits.

[Captain Colonial]

Unmarked white van with a private plate.

There's a tip 1/4 mile down the road, lazy gits.

Not lazy - tight. They'd get charged if they took their rubbish to the tip in a white van. They are scumbags to be sure.

[Mighty Mart]

Only sign written vans get charged at our local tip. Hope they throw the book at em though...dumping is just not on IMHO.

Mart.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Our dump doesn't allow business waste at all. Any form of commercial vehicle, (pickups included) needs a certificate to even be able to dump domestic/private waste. (And the type of waste has to be logged on the certificate).

I really hate the sort of scum that do fly tip, but we do also make it difficult/expensive to legitimately dispose of some waste too.

[jeff oakley]

This will most likely be one of the caravan utilising nomadic travellers who have done this or similar low life's. The big issue is that due to EU regulations burying waste in the ground attracts huge taxes, IIRC £80 per ton. Similarly burning waste is frowned upon so the costs are high there. 

 

Councils do not want to provide tipping facilities due to the increased cost of disposal and they know fly tipping will increase, but here is the good bit for them, if it is on public land they clean it up, if it is private land , the land owner foots the bill.

 

A mate is a farmer and has been hit a couple of times by these people. One such time the police did find out the householder who had paid for the waste to be disposed of. He had not checked they were registered waste carriers and ended up footing the clean up bill.

 

If they get caught, the above no fixed abode simply move on, never to be prosecuted, if it people who have a fixed abode , the fines are laughably low, so no deterrent for them.

 

I always check any waste I have to pay to be disposed is by appropriate persons, it costs more but we avoid feeding these scum

[Captain Colonial]

Yep, landfill tax is nearly £85 per ton now. Burning waste to create power is the next big thing. Well, it's an old thing, but we're getting better and better at sorting our waste now, and can burn it more cleanly to make electricity.

Fly tipping is one reason why "pay as you throw" with bin chipping has never taken off. People would rather dump their waste somewhere else (or stick it in their neighbour's bins) than pay their fair share to get rid of it safely. "Pay as you throw" resulted in a huge rise in fly tipping in the south of Ireland, and also a massive increase in vermin as a result. Vermin as in rats, rather than the vermin who fly tip.

It's hard to get people to do the right thing.

[Stu Faulkner]

I'll pop in to the local Police tomorrow and see what they think.

[dombanks]

Didn't they start putting chips in bins but some paper (probably the mail) started encouraging people to remove them.

[Nemesis]

The fine for littering can be as high as 2K..... the fuzz ought to take some action 

[jeff oakley]

Nemesis, on 18 Apr 2016 - 6:25 PM, said:

The fine for littering can be as high as 2K..... the fuzz ought to take some action 

The reason they don't is a lot of the time it is people who can move quickly or have no means of paying fines that fly tip. What they are starting to do, I have read, is to see if there any identification in the rubbish and then the person who has engaged the waste disposal is hit with the clean up bill.

 

The scum still find ways out.

[blue ass fly]

We live out in the sticks and theres tyres sofas and fridges regularly dumped - usually in the gateway to fields

I agree they should be dealt with but as dave said, the local tips dont allow vans,pickups - even if its for social not work,braked trailers and even count how many visits you make in a day

My local one is staffed by what i think is the russian defence force and theyve got their head in your boot as you unload

It was covered on radio 2 yesterday and many people said if they calmed down at the local tip the fly tipping would stop