Removing rubbish Bournemouth Echo

[muddy fingers]

Surely they should have handed your info over to the police at least. Maybe it has to be a live video to prove the connection. I've seen programmes on the TV where hidden cameras in the hedge film the fly tippers and they are subsequently prosecuted on that filmed evidence.

[shotwell]

Surely they should have handed your info over to the police at least. Maybe it has to be a live video to prove the connection. I've seen programmes on the TV where hidden cameras in the hedge film the fly tippers and they are subsequently prosecuted on that filmed evidence.

The council just were not interested
Which when you have all that evidence and camera photo even had date stamped .
Was so annoyed after all trouble i went to .
Just feel why should anyone report anything when they dont act on the evidence.
Wont bother again will just mind my own

[oldartefact]

I caught someone red handed in a white van tipping in a lane in the countryside near Doncaster
took photo of man got number plate what type of van.
Took this info to Doncaster council and all they said was they could do nothing about it.
All they wanted was for me to tell them where this rubbish was so they could collect it.
So you tell me why bother

I agree that it must be impossible to catch those of no fixed address ... which I assume was the point the council were getting at. Maybe try the police?

[littleboot]

I find French beaches and public areas far cleaner than similar English ones. I found England blighted with stuff chucked from car windows. (Appalling to see the roadsides after the winter when there is no vegetation to 'hide' it.)
I think partly its chicken and egg. Many public areas in France are much more regularly cleaned than corresponding areas in England. As a result, dropping litter becomes more noticeable and ergo more 'taboo'. Once litter is allowed to build up unchecked it becomes a case of 'who cares'. Thing is, in France, litter picking and road tidying is a public service and paid for from the (high) level of taxation. I have never seen volunteers doing it because the view is they pay the local Mayor to employ people to do it. Pays (or not) your money and takes your choice of what is better I suppose.

[ROCK HOPPER]

In Cornwall where I live I have stopped detecting in the dry areas of the beaches where everyone sits as there is so much rubbish mainly cans, packaging and batteries that you would need a van following to put the rubbish in. People even leave red hot disposable barbecues just under the sand which people have stood on and got very burned feet.
I pick up most of the rubbish I find but there is a limit when it is a long walk back to the car.
p.s.
Why doesn't everyone else pick up rubbish as they pass it.

[muddy fingers]

I don't do the dry areas either for the same reason. Eventually, those barbecues break up and we are plagued by the disintegrating mesh grill sections for quite a few years afterwards out on the wet sand areas where I search. People take these things to the beach, covering everyone else in their smoke, with no intention of bringing them back.