Thursday 30 January 2020

The dark side

There has been a lot of comments on how lovely our English countryside is, and indeed it is, most of it. But these photo's tell a different story, taken over the three days walking in South Yorkshire. In the middle of winter, when all the greenery has died down, exposed underneath is a disgraceful scene of human waste. This saddens me a lot to see this. To call the humans who did this, pigs, is an insult to pigs. 
The places where I walked are not far from Barnsley, Rotherham, and Sheffield. People stop off in quiet country lanes and unload their bags of rubbish thinking that's the end of it, out of sight out of mind, rather than do the decent thing and take them to the Council dumps. I cannot get my head round the mentality of these disgusting sub humans. 
I have been on the Barnsley, and Rotherham, Council web sites and reported this fly tipping. I have left my details in case they want to give me any updates on their actions, that's if they have sent a truck out to pick it up. I have done this previously with the North Lincs Council web site when I have found rubbish locally. They don't make it easy, the maps they provide are not very clear on the screen, and it's difficult to pinpoint the exact locations. 

On closer inspection of this pile, I didn't move anything to see it, pigs trotters and large animal bones are clearly visible. It looks like it could have come from a slaughterhouse.

All around the area I found lots of cannabis root balls, dumped in hedge bottoms. The plants have been harvested and all what's left are the roots. They don't take these to the dump because the smell would incriminate them. 
Picture this, a very quiet country lane, I found a ladies bra, size 42E, on the grass verge. A few yards further on a large log had been placed across the entrance to a field, presumably by the farmer to keep fly tippers out. Someone passing had decorated it with an assortment of ladies underwear, the plastic bag was nearby, mostly bras. This actually amused me, it was so out of place, and a work of art. I found more bras scattered about so I draped them across the hedgerow. Maybe someone else will be amused by it. 

This is a laugh, concealed cameras my arse. No Tipping, ha, as if anyone is going to take any notice of this. They didn't, a bag with ladies pyjamas in it.

A bit further along on the same lane, an assortment of rubbish, mainly children's toys, which looked like it had been there for quite a while. The two hairdressing models caught my attention. Put them on top of a stick facing the road, and it will give some unsuspecting motorist a scare, or a laugh. 

Don't you feel sad that a cute little toy has been abandoned like this.

This whole lane is littered with rubbish. I hope they come and sort it out.

Next time you come across some fly tipping, have a go at reporting it on the Council web site. It takes a while to navigate it, and it's more difficult if you are in an area you are not familiar with. Take notes at the time you find it, street or road name. Good luck.
Toodle pip.  ilona



18 comments:

  1. oh awful, sadly yes lots more fly tipping that in the past but the recycling centres where I live you have to register your car and vans over a certain height they don't allow at all or if you are ripping your kitchen out, you have to pay, I can understand the reasons why but at times it seems a bit daft as all they go an do is just tip in the countryside. Have you heard of the what2words app? it pinpoints an area, I think is 3 meters square and it is now helping the emergency services when people get lost on the moors or live in a difficult to find house, Jo

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  2. Aboslutely disgusting, it really angers me and saddens me, perhaps they should get some dna sample off it and find the damn people who did it, or get more cameras up or have people hidden away monitoring it, I suppose its all costs isn't it, but it cost in resources to clean it up, but my concern is the wildlife, what about all the little creatures climbing into bag or something and getting stuck.

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  3. In the paper recently a young woman had paid for what she thought was a genuine company to take waste away and then was landed with a summons for fly tipping. She was mortified and said that in future she would always use the council as you cannot trust people to get rid of your waste legally

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    1. Thank you for mentioning this. You can't be too careful, trust no one and do it yourself.

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  4. we often get the cannabis plant rootballs dumped locally. I admit to having pinched the large plastic pots to grow potatoes in ...lol waste not want not and all that

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    1. I did think about going back in my car and picking up the bras, but I didn't want to spoil the display, ha ha. Come to think about it, I could have installed the two heads in my back garden.

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    2. What a sad picture of our green and pleasant land. Very depressing. It would have been better to remove the bras instead of leaving them as a blight on the landscape. Also anything dumped is a hazard to creatures. Cattle are well known for eating items of fabric resulting in a blockage in their gut, fatal. Betty (also in the UK)

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  5. MY neighbour did not even bother to drive to the countryside to dump their rubbish but chose to throw 3 large trailer loads of various junk into my back garden.The police recognised it to be theirs,spoke to them,gave me a incident number and wrote a report but did not get them to clear up their mess.Something very wrong there I believe x

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  6. That rubbish is truly terrible, what a blight. When you need a house clearance you really do put your trust in the people to do it responsibly. The cheapest isn't always the best. Luckily when MILs house was emptied, we knew the man.
    A lot of charities will do clearances.

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  7. As you said Ilona,they are sub human.They do not give a damn.It makes you wonder just who they are,how they can just tip it and drive away without another thought of what they have done.Scum.xx

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  8. Sad, sad, sad it makes me sad

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  9. well, nasty for sure. However, I wonder how difficult local authorities are making it for folks to dispose of unwanted goods/garbage/castoffs? (I am not justifying this behaviour, not at all, but...)
    Here are some of the impediments folks I have talked to (and some around where I am at) must contend with
    -council decides every second week is "ample" for garbage pick up (this after raising rates for garbage pick up and giving selves raise)
    -council THEN decides not only is every second week ample for garbage pick up, now if you put out an extra bag (for each bag that does not fit in the smallish bin), it now MUST have a purchased tag on it, or will not be taken. Tag cost roughly one third of council charge for bin pick up.
    -charities which take used goods advertising (yes, really), they do not want your used goods, unless they are in very good/next to new shape..(seriously....if they were that good I would not get rid of them)
    -rubbish dumps raising fees to take stuff there
    -rubbish dumps limiting hours which you can access dump to take stuff
    -local councils enacting by laws that fine persons who put up a sign "garage sale"/"yard sale" etc
    ==just some of the ways it seems many councils are hurting proper garbage and goods disposal

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    1. The problem is not with the Councils. The problem is with us. People just have to stop buying so much stuff they obviously don't need or want. The 3 Rs come to mind - Refuse, Reuse and Recycle. The Councils are running out of holes to put the rubbish into and are paying more and more to get rid of our stuff on our behalf. Jane

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    2. I'm afraid in our area in the UK the problem is mostly with the Council. We pay our Council Tax but yet the collections are now only every three weeks for the general household refuse bin. The same for the recycling, every three weeks. The food waste bin is collected every week with only one of the others, either the bottle bin, paper bin or household refuse bin. We manage well with the three weekly collections of the recycling stuff but not the household refuse and quite often have to take some to the tip ourselves, despite if possible not buying things with excessive packaging and compressing the waste as much as possible. The bin men are instructed not to take anything that's not in the bin and the bin lid must be able to fully close or they won't empty it. We're able to go to the tip as we have a car but there are others who don't, or who are infirm. So yes, I'm afraid some of the blame lies with the Council, when we had weekly collections of the household waste there wasn't the littering situation there is now.

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    3. You know, I have been thinking about this a LOT.....It's awful, these photos, and so much of it. Where i'm at, I never see to this extent. Only the odd bit here and there.

      I am thinking, though, it is soon to happen. Bound to. Our councils are cutting back pick up, severely, and raising rates-- greatly. I am thinking even that many will not be able (honestly) to afford the raises...

      I cannot be the only one (here) who is wondering WTF?...They phrase it (in news releases), in terms of "better for the environment"/"use less"/"buy less and throw out less"...In one way, these sound noble, etc.. But, have they considered that the local businesses will then be selling less, thus less able to afford hiring staff and paying taxes? --- they should remember...it is taxes that funds our councils over generous wages and retirement benefits....

      I honestly think (our councils) have the idea if they charge more for recycling and gabage pick up, and do these less, Golly, they will make scads more money, which can then go to their "pet" (payback) projects, or to their generous bonuses.

      I truly believe that as our rates go up and up, and services get less and less, we will end up worse than the photos above. Yes it is nasty and so forth. But at some point, folks get exhausted and fed up, and just "get rid". One might think "take it to the dump" etc..Where i'm at, rates raise there constantly, and the hours one can deposit stuff decline and it is pricey.

      It seems to me, that if government truly wants folks to recycle responsibly, to use garbage properly, use the dump, etc, they should make it easier , not harder.

      I read about one small country (cannot remember which...), that wanted to dramatically cut back on motor traffic and increase public transit use. They are a resounding success. How? They made public transit free. Said savings in road maintence/accidents/etc paid for it. This sort of leadership encourages folks to "do the right thing".

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  10. This happens in Australia also! We live in a small coastal village and weekenders leave rubbish around the public bid when they leave town and often small local gravel roads look like your pictures. It's really bad upbringing and manners and we do have excellent garbage collection.

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  11. Interesting to hear that cannabis root balls are part of the dumping scene.....I would be in there grabbing those for potting mix for my own garden.

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