How To Encourage Fly Tipping
 

So, from the 1st of June we will all be charged £3.50 per bag for being responsible and taking our waste to the tip.
How much more will the clean up operation cost per bag when folk just dump it around the corner when no-one is looking cost?
Surely it's better to offer a responsible service that encourages people to dispose of their waste responsibly?

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That's unbelievable! Well, no it's not, just crazy.
£3.50 for one bag? How much a ton is that?
They may as well sack the men at the tip- they'll have nothing to do.
There was talk of charging £46/year for the garden rubbish bin here. There was such a reaction they dropped it but only come every 3 weeks.
Result- if the garden bin gets full you stick it in the other bins. No problem.

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Gordon, according to the Telegraph that is £3.50 per 60cm by 90cm bag. I'm used to old money so cm doesn't mean much but even I know that ain't a big bag!

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This is a really bad idea.....and yes it will encourage people to dump their rubbish where ever they think they might not be caught on camera.

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It isn't general waste, it's DIY and garden rubbish and if you get a permit it's free. Still wrong though, should be free for none commercial rubbish.

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2ft by 3ft? That's not much bigger than a swing bin bag, certainly much smaller than the old dustbin bag. Still, if you fill it with bricks or body parts I suppose it would be quite heavy!

A permit?? For heavens sake, you live there, you pay them council tax. Is there an entrance fee as well to get into the tip?
No? There soon will be.

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Permits are free but inconvenient as you've to tell them when you apply exactly what your taking, then it takes a week to come through the post.

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I'm not sure that would be wise- they might have a rule about body parts.
And after a weeks wait- the smell!

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You could just open a kebab shop and make a bit of brass rather than paying to get rid of it.

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Yuk...so glad I do not eat kebabs...... that thought will stay with me(body parts kebab)

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A permit just so you can be responsible with the waste you need to get rid of? I've always willingly taken my extra waste to the tip, maybe I should use the alternative many of my neighbours already use? After all my bit of fly tipping will hardly make a difference will it?

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whos brought this charge in the council or SITA ?

SITA run all the tips around here and they are in charge of them they just rent the land i think

they make a lot of money from our rubbish as it is

they sell all the metal

they sell all the bikes

they sell all the plastic which we kindly put into the plastics skip

they sell all the broken tv's for repair or spare parts - most of which end up in africa where older tvs ar ein demand and modern ones are cheap to repair

they sell all the electrical goods such as dvd players , stereos, irons, etc

they sell all the washing machines for spare parts or repairs

they sell all the cans

they sell all the batteries from AA to car batteries

basically everything that goes through those gates gets sold to some company or other

they also have a container in each yard that they put all the good stuff into and that container is filled for a bloke who pays them around £300 per month to take what he wants from it to sell to whoever he wants.One guy has the lease to about 11 of these containers around here at various SITA sites

and now they want to charge us for taking stuff to them so they can sell it ?

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you know somat they should be paying us per kilo for our trash

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Wow, our rubbish costs us approx $1,000 per month, 500 pounds, that is for 143 households. They pick it up every week and also do a separate pick up each week for recycle stuff. Works out to less than 1 pound per week per household. I guess we shouldn't complain.

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when the council ran the tips everything was mostly just dumped. SITA came along and recycled everything/sold and make millions.SITA even have tips in Dubai.They are a multinational company making billions out of trash

if the council had kept the tips and done this themselves they could be making money and improving services etc instead of making private companies rich

when SITA's contract expires i hope someone at county council looks into how much money is made from all the tips in lancashire because i would much rather the money be put back into the area

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Not only TV's end up in Africa, when I visited Ghana a few years ago, we saw hundreds of Hotpoint, Indesit and even John Lewis washing Machines for sale, all with moulded British plugs (They used to be a colony, and still use our sockets).

Anyway, according to the Telegraph, we can still use Blackburn's tips as its the County Council who have decided this, in an election year......I wonder if any of our resident representatives will bother coming on here and explaining this great idea to us, the great unwashed, by their standards....

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I agree,it's a rubbish idea (poor pun)....


...it could be worth setting up a business to clear roadsides,wastelands and local woods ;)

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When we have to pay to dispose of our rubbish in a responsible manner will the men with "Happy to hep" on their jackets still watch us struggle with heavy items.
As they did with me last week.

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Well ive heard some stupid ideas in me lifetime, But this has got to rank as the STUPIDEST:rolleyes:

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What are the rules if you're putting your new kitchen in and taking the cupboards, shelves, sink etc to the tip?
They won't go in a 60x90 bag. Will they charge you at commercial rates or what?
It could cost more to dump the old kitchen than your new one costs.

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blackburn arnt charging because they dont wan a fly tipping epidemic that will cost hundreds of thousands to clean up

Hyndburn have loads of cash to spend infact they have started issuing £50 notes instead of toilet roll in council buildings

not exactly a feel good story this charging to get rid of waste im very surprised its made it to the news so near to election time

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to be a bit more serious about things Claire Pritchard has put a lot of effort into the fly tipping issue im surprised she hasnt been up in arms about this because it will undo all her hard work the past few years

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It's unworkable, and like all unworkable ideas it will be dropped. No way would I ever pay £3.50. I'd find some other (legal) way to dispose of it. The incidents of fly tipping by less honest people will rocket.

The worrying thing is that there are people in positions of power prepared to push through unworkable ideas like this which lead to higher costs later.

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part of me cant help but think that in a week or two a labour county councilor or possibly MP is going to be on the front page of the telegraph hailing their fight to reverse this decision as victorious just in time for the election..

just a little niggle though im sure a politician would never create a problem so they can fix it

its just too bad a move for a politician to make just before an election.They dont usually screw people until after the election has passed

like i said just a niggle but nothing surprises me these days when it comes to politics

i just cantbelieve that a group of educated people got together and thought this was a good idea

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Have yeh got any proof, that whoever is responsible fer this joke is educated?:confused: Cos ive got grave doubts.

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Don't hold your breath, you know that they can't be bothered explaining anything to the 95% that don't understand what life is all about

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Perhaps they need to raise extra money to pay for the White Elephant on Broadway?