Rubbish fly-tipped every two hours across Sussex (From The Argus)
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Rubbish fly-tipped every two hours across Sussex
3:40pm Friday 2nd September 2011 in News By Ben Parsons
A new case of fly-tipping is being reported every two hours across Sussex.
And only a fraction of the cost of clearing up the mess is recouped in fines.
Rural pressure group the Countryside Alliance released the figures as part of a campaign for a crackdown on tipping with extra funding and an education campaign.
The group obtained figures for Brighton and Hove, Lewes district, Eastbourne, the Rother district, Chichester and Crawley, saying other councils in the county did not respond.
Those areas spent more than twice as much on enforcement action for fly-tipping as they recovered in fines last year, and four times as much on clearing up mess.
There were 5,319 cases in the areas covered, with clearance costs of £171,106.
There were 952 "enforcements", costing 99,172, with only 50 successful prosecutions recorded and 415 fines totalling £44,448.
In Brighton and Hove, 1,809 cases were reported between April last year and March this year. According to the figures, the dumped waste cost £89,470 to clear up.
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John Steed
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6:45pm Fri 2 Sep 11
John Steed
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6:55pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Indigatio
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8:25pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Surely not!
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10:04pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Indigatio wrote:Wonder if you are as much of a knob as your comment implies. Well I don't wonder actually I think its a dead cert.
Wonder if its also anything to do with the vast increase in numbers of our 'traveller' friends?
pat of worthing
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12:07am Sat 3 Sep 11
John Steed wrote:But what are the other 41 ideas.
there are so many ways of desposing of rubbish, it just requires a bit of ingenuity to have a fun time dumping it. Helpfull idea number 42, put it in a carrier from your favourite supermarket and next time you go shopping before you load up your shopping carefully place bags of rubbish behind an adjacent car or simply place it back in the trolley you have just emptied (helpfull idea number 43) never leave home with out some there are loads of ways and places to get shot of it, why my local charity shop simply puts rubbish against a litter bin and hey presto its gone before they open up next day
Indigatio
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1:47pm Sat 3 Sep 11
Surely not! wrote:That's not very nice :-). One was trying to be diplomatic. Of course its a 'dead cert'.............
Indigatio wrote: Wonder if its also anything to do with the vast increase in numbers of our 'traveller' friends?Wonder if you are as much of a knob as your comment implies. Well I don't wonder actually I think its a dead cert.
nikkinono
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10:35am Sun 4 Sep 11
I thought
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11:20am Sun 4 Sep 11
Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit wrote:I agree with you on that 100 percent... The new barriers at the tips will also add to this... Plus the amount of rubble and tree cuttings dumped by the 'travellers' in every lay-by and car park they can.
If Brighton ever switch to fortnightly bin collection the Countryside Alliance will soon be referring to this period as the 'Good Old Days.
Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit says...
4:13pm Fri 2 Sep 11