The coronavirus pandemic has forced councils to temporarily close their household recycling centres to the public, prompting fears of an increase in fly-tipping incidents.
The CLA, which represents farmers, landowners and rural businesses across the Isle of Wight, encourages both landowners and farmers, along with the public, to report any fly-tipping incidents to their local authorities.
Farmers and landowners can go some way to preventing fly-tipped waste on their land by ensuring gates to fields are locked, opening up concealed entrances so they more visible to passers-by, using CCTV in black spots and reporting all instances to the police or local authority.
CLA South East Regional Director North Michael Valenzia said:
“It is shocking to hear reports of fly-tipping incidents especially at this time of lock-down. The closure of tips is understandable, but can’t be used as an excuse to dump rubbish in our countryside.
“Farmers and landowners are victims of this crime yet have to clear up fly-tipped waste from their land, which we estimate costs on average about £900 per incident. If they don’t they face prosecution themselves, while the environmental impact is also considerable, especially if items such as asbestos are dumped.”
The CLA has long called for decisive action in tackling this scourge by publishing a 5-point action plan in 2017. As a result, the government introduced new regulations in 2018 which enabled local councils to issue fixed penalty notices or fines of up to £400 for small scale fly-tipping.
Fly-tipping can be reported to local councils via https://www.gov.uk/report-flytipping or anonymously to Crimestoppers, by phoning 0800 555 111.
I am not quite sure why social distancing cant be in place at tips..It kind of is essential or we could end up with rat infestations.
I totally agree with u there….they could use every 2 parking bays
Towniess how ougt not be here, get back to the main land like.
U dirty filthy scum bags take it back home with you….I went to the tip on tue found it closed….came home put extra black bags around the rubbish and will wait for bin day now
The Lynn bottom tip was working ok with dumpers being kept at broom length and cars restricted entry at any one time. There is bound to be flytipping and bonfires until the tip reopens. A guy on the corner of New Barn & Sylvan has just cut his hedge down! Where is that going to be dumped.?
In your garden ?
what about the people who work at the tip and the hundreds of people they come into contact with every day. They are risking the health of themselves and there families. The important stuff goes in the black bags which the dustbin men collect, everything else can wait.
And for those without a garden or any outside space that would usually take waste to the tip?
The council is going on about fly tipping and bonfires being detrimental to people’s health here.
They’ve caused it shutting the recycling centres.
Let’s face it, theres not millions of us on the island is there. We used Lynnbottom all the time it was never overcrowded, busy some days, yes, but never hundreds of cars. Quite often no more than half a dozen.
It could have been organised safely and efficiently. The council couldn’t be bothered. Too much like hard work.
Easier to shut it down.
Most of the gardeners here are retired people who now have the time to spend in our gardens.
No disrespect to our younger generation here intended I assure you.
We’re not going to be a baying mob fighting to get through the gates first are we.
Just want to get rid of our garden waste.
People who do this sort of thing are the dregs in our society, they just don’t care. Shame they couldn’t be found and fined VERY heavily
Not every household is going to have van loads of rubbish to fly tip. Why not just have an amnesty whilst the IWC fail to open their tip? Then the IWC could just collect the rubbish. It’s not like they stick to their own rules on picking up rubbish anyway is it? Just walk through Sandown (& other towns no doubt) on bin day and see the hundreds of plastic bin bags left out – they are all collected anyway by the dustpersons.
This action taken by the Island County Council, has the unintended consequences of the tipping issue. THEY could have had a area or post code selection for designeted days for residents to bring waste to tip.When lock down is suspended how is the demand going to be managed with complete transport disruption.laresfare