Fly-tipping
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Fly-tipping (also known as "fly dumping",[1] and sometimes shortened to tipping) is a British term for dumping waste illegally instead of in an authorised rubbish dump. 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.[2][3]
The term is derived from the verb tip, meaning "to throw out of a vehicle" and on the fly, meaning "on the wing" — to throw away carelessly or casually.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ "City of Chicago :: Environment". egov.cityofchicago.org. http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/streets/provdrs/street/svcs/illegal_fly_dumping.html. Retrieved 2010-08-18.
- ^ Fly tipping and the law a guide for the public, crimereduction.co.uk
- ^ "UK fly-tipping 'on massive scale'". BBC. 2007-03-19. 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."
- ^ fly-tipping, n. Oxford English Dictionary, online edition, November 2010. Retrieved: 2011-01-28.
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