fly tipping in the uK

You can also, in all good faith, pay what seems to be a legitimate person to take your bulky items to dispose of, and they then go and dump your waste.

One of the problems is that council tips are beginning to charge for rubbish taken there. Our Council charges you £1.50 for every single thing taken to the tip that can be defined as DIY.

I am not talking kitchen and bathroom units. Take a tin of paint to the tip, you pay £1.50. Take 5 tins and it is £7.50. We took a lttle wooden toboggan DH made for our children years ago. The man lookes at it, said 'Did you make that?' Yes, says DH proudly - £1.50 to pay said tip attendant. Yet we would not have been charged if the toboggan had been a bought plastic one

The result it, taking stuff to the tip is getting very expensive, some people cannot afford to go to the tip - so they go out and fly-tip it.

Our council now charge £25, to collect large items from outside people's homes, say a fridge or cooker, if you do not have a car.

Part of the trouble, and this applies to commercial fly tipping as well, is that the County Council is responsible for running the tips, but it is the local council who has to pay for clearing up fly tipping by the roadside.

Transfer responsibility of the clear-up to the county councils and they wiil probably then sit down and find a system that deals with waste, but reduces fly tipping.

*items, not ‘fit tent’??

I think the worst of it is that if stuff is tipped on your land, you are the one who must pay for its removal which could be mind-blowingly expensive depending on what's been fly-tipped.

Fly tipping comes from several sources. Builders are charged to take building rubble, waste fit tents to the tip. As are private individuals, for example, you can’t take bathroom fittings without charge. So cowboy builders will fly tip.
Some rubbish removers, without a tip licence, will charge unsuspecting householders to remove unwanted items such as mattresses and sofas, to take items to the tip. They then fly tip them.
Then there are individuals who, for no understandable reason dump their waste.