Fly-tipping
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Fly-tipping ("sneaky dumping"[1] or "dumping on the fly"[2]) is a British term for illegally dumping waste somewhere else than in an authorised landfill. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, i.e., waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.[3][4][5][6]
[edit] Skip jacking
‘Skip-jacking’ - the unauthorised use of your skip - occurs when you hire an empty skip, and then find that someone has filled it with their rubbish without asking, free of charge.[7]
To combat this, a scheme to encourage ‘skip-sharing’ exists - a special deal offered to neighbours who book a shared skip, sharing the cost with a neighbour. A simple leaflet drop could inform a whole street of the opportunity to get rid of their waste at an affordable price, as well as outlining the environmental benefits of skip-sharing (not to mention the revival of a sense of ‘community’).[8]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.word-detective.com/040503.html#fly%20tipping
- ^ http://www.translationdirectory.com/glossaries/glossary014_f.htm
- ^ Fly tipping and the law a guide for the public, Crimereduction.co.uk
- ^ National Fly-tipping campaign run by the Countryside Alliance
- ^ "UK fly-tipping 'on massive scale'". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6465927.stm. Retrieved 2008-12-16. "Fly-tipping is taking place on a "massive scale" across the UK, the Countryside Alliance has warned. Some 2.5m cases of illegal dumping were recorded between April 2005 and 2006, it said, with 1,249,527 incidents reported in Liverpool alone."
- ^ "Prison threat for pensioner who put sand back on beach". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=441044&in_page_id=1770. Retrieved 2008-12-16. "A pensioner has been threatened with prison or a £50,000 fine if he takes windblown sand back to the beach where it came from. ... Doing that, they told him, would class as fly-tipping, for which the maximum penalty is a £50,000 fine or six months in jail."
- ^ A funny song and music video which highlights the fly tipping/skip jacking problem.
- ^ [1] National Share A Skip Sheme
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