People who don’t bother removing personal information etc when fly tipping deserve the fine

[Cuffi]

Yesterday I was walking down a road and spotted a couple of Amazon boxes - both stuffed with rubbish. Still had address on both boxes.

i hate fly tipping. It makes the areas messy, attracts vermin and shows how lazy people are.

Using an app called Love Clean Streets- sent a report with photos. Love Clean Streets you can report things like fallen trees, dead animals as well as fly tipping

if people spend a few seconds on removing address, they will be less likely to be caught. So they deserve fines

Fair or not, it's the law.

Basically, if you get waste taken away, get a proper receipt that has the waste carriers licence. Then it's their problem.

To be fair, it's the one thing our local authority isn't completely useless at. Flytipped rubbish gets scoured by volunteers and any ID is used to prosecute.

The Trade Waste Transportation Authorisation Certificate needs a zippier name, doesn't it? 🤭

Why can't people spend a few seconds removing their address from packaging? I always do. Sometimes the sticker doesn't come off cleanly and in bits.

Well this makes you a bit of an arse. You said this happened during a storm so therefore it is likely this blew off someones property

If it was in a storm there’s a good chance chance the envelope was thrown away appropriately but that the wind blew the bin open/ over and that the wind blew the envelope to your car. You sound very petty over that. Not something I would be sharing proudly!

nobody should fly tip

Just to prove a point that there is a reason why you need to remove the address labels. If they did remove their address, I just have put cardboard into my recycling bin. Plus this family are always messy.

Goes without saying!!

What the heck is wrong with people that they feel the need to leave litter lying about and don’t pick up after themselves. It’s someone else’s job I suppose!!!

I don’t think most people remove the address labels from envelopes/ parcel packaging before putting them into their bins, I certainly don’t.

It is advised to prevent identity theft.

You have a legal duty to check waste collectors are licensed.

If they aren’t you are still liable for fly tipping.

This happened locally recently and someone named and shamed. Turns out they had paid a man and van to take it to the tip and he had dumped it instead.

That said, you are still responsible if it's your rubbish as you chose to hire dodgy bloke.

Still the original people's responsibility to ensure their waste is disposed or correctly so they should still be fined

It's advisable to avoid identity theft but doesn't let you off the hook with fly tipping. Fly tipping is unforgivable and deserves the fines.

There is a local fly tipper who dumps a white van load twice a week. I caught him doing it last Sunday evening for the second time. My word against his so the police will do nothing without hard evidence - ie a video recording.

I even have his number plate.

As @taxguru says, the householders who are quite relaxed to pay cash in hand for a man with a van are culpable here.

If the local farmers find him, he can kiss his arse goodbye. It will be like a scene from The Revenant.

It's the one crime - along with littering - that I would happily see the death penalty restored for.

If you stop to think about what is going on here ... this is a bunch of folks showing they have zero regard for you and your environment. Where your children play. Where your family live. Where your neighbours make a community.

Flytipping and littering is a big "fuck you" to all of that and should be treated with an even bigger fuck you of the harshest penalties we can think of.

In civil emergencies, it's not uncommon for looters to be shot. In civil peacetime they could target practice with litterbugs. I wouldn't shed a tear.

Having signs to say fly tipping is illegal and fines will be imposed if caught, don't work.

My friend is a member of the South Leicestershire Litter Wombles and she does group picks - laybys, industrial parks, bypasses, A roads. They often find fly tips by signs "No fly tipping". Most of its a car's worth of fly tipping. Other times, its 17 fridges and the rest. This is the group page on FB. https://www.facebook.com/groups/604107836721038

Also many farms have to pay for the fly tipping done on their land/entrances to fields, unless they find addresses etc on the crap.