Fly Tipping Rage

Drax

Lads, I am livid. I have just driven up the road beside my house and noticed that some c*nt has dumped what looks to be half a house just inside the entrance of the field. It is a field of barley and it the rubbish has flattened some of the crop. Also in order to harvest this field this crap will have to be cleaned up. This is not the first time this has happened either. I live in a fairly rural area in Meath and the land around seems to attract this illegal dumping. I have reported is before but the last 2 times, the rubbish has been purely building materials - copper piping, pallets, wooden planks, plumbing supplies etc. Half this stuff could be recycled too. I am nearly tempted to go through it with a fine tooth comb and try and find something I could use to prosecute. This type of stuff enrages me esp the fact that I do not understand the mentality of people who do this! Pure scum.

Apologies for the rant.

10-10-20

Do go through it. Inform the EPA on: Illegal Dumping Hotline 1850 365121.
You need to find two addresses relating to the originator though.

rickybutcher

I'm lucky enough in this respect to live in an urban area but if somebody so much as leaves a bag of cans on the road outside it drives me mad, even people throwing a cigarette out a window annoys me. Littering of any kind. I understand your anger. I would go through it and try to find what you can. Chances are though you won't find anything. If it's a trouble spot and if it's practical, it might be worth investing in a CCTV system somewhere along that road. Or you could find out about CCTV cameras in the area and see if you can pick out the culprit.

tampopo

Yeah it wrecks my head too... when it happens near me as it has done recently.
check meath cc website to see if they have an environmental officer you can report it to.
hopefully there's an address there somewhere.
scumbags, so they are.

JA12

The reason why this is happening is because of the recycling charges imposed on electrical and other items taken to a recycling facility.

It doesn't excuse it, but it does explain it.

I frequently see fridges etc dumped in ditches beside the road.

The only sure way to help people to dispose of their unwanted stuff is to make the recycling centres free.

We already pay a WEEE charge on electrical items, so why do we have to pay for any of these types of items to be recycled at all, we are being charged twice.

J.

Raytown Rocks

JA12 wrote:

The reason why this is happening is because of the recycling charges imposed on electrical and other items taken to a recycling facility.

It doesn't excuse it, but it does explain it.

I frequently see fridges etc dumped in ditches beside the road.

The only sure way to help people to dispose of their unwanted stuff is to make the recycling centres free.

We already pay a WEEE charge on electrical items, so why do we have to pay for any of these types of items to be recycled at all, we are being charged twice.

J.

Any electrical goods I have ever brought to a recycling site have been free!!!
As you say we already pay the WEE in advance thus allowing us to leave electrical goods free at any recycling centre.

Drax

JA12 wrote:

The only sure way to help people to dispose of their unwanted stuff is to make the recycling centres free.

True. But I dont think people mind paying a small fee for recycling. Take for example the recycling centre in Drogheda - you pay 2 euro at the barrier and you can bring as much as you want. The only downside to this place is that they dont take waste oils (but I could be open to correction). To get rid of my oil, I take it to a place in Ballyogan off the M50. This place recently started charging 5 euro for green waste (i.e: grass cuttings etc). It was free before and I believe that they can sell it off as mulch. Oil is free.


The stuff that was dumped down the road from me was just some prick too tight to order a skip.

JA12

The recycling centre in Navan charges a fortune (or at least it did the last time I visited it) for anything that has a motor/engine/chips. They have a sliding scale of charges, they said these were handling/processing charges.

It was €28 to leave a computer screen there.

Things may have changed since then, but I doubt it - some of these places are very greedy.

J.

Del2005

JA12 wrote:

The recycling centre in Navan charges a fortune (or at least it did the last time I visited it) for anything that has a motor/engine/chips. They have a sliding scale of charges, they said these were handling/processing charges.

It was €28 to leave a computer screen there.

Things may have changed since then, but I doubt it - some of these places are very greedy.

J.

When was that? I though all electrical stuff was now free. I know long before the WEE came in that it was €30-€50 for a fridge, but shortly before the WEE came in they where free.

gingerGiant

JA12 wrote:

The recycling centre in Navan charges a fortune (or at least it did the last time I visited it) for anything that has a motor/engine/chips. They have a sliding scale of charges, they said these were handling/processing charges.

J.

Not true anymore I was in there two weeks ago with two old P.C monitors, an old telly and VCR, some old food tins and drinks cans and a 25 litre drum of old oil i've been saving up from the last few times i serviced the car. Paid two euro to the automatic barrier and that was it. Very impressed with the facility and will be a regular there in future.

Khannie

Drax wrote:

I am nearly tempted to go through it with a fine tooth comb and try and find something I could use to prosecute.

Do it tbh. Definitely.