Illegal dumping,[1][2] also called fly dumping or fly tipping (UK),[3] is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as curbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump.
Now the title makes more sense
Ah, and “fly” means “on the fly”. Got it.
Oh - I thought it was like giving a tip to the flies.
When I first saw signs about fly-tipping in London, my head went to cow tipping and thought, “someone would need really fast reactions to tip over a fly.”
Similar, except I thought the existence of the pile was tipped by the flies (as there was many of them).
Lord of the fly tips.
Thanks, I’d never heard that term before and was very confused
Nor had I.
Now that I have, I’m having trouble thinking of the term ‘illegal dumping’ that I’ve used till now.
Bloody poms.Littering?
Why do the English refuse to properly speak their own damn language?
Now arrest a CEO for the same thing
The heap, which is up to 150m (490ft) long and 6m (20ft) high…
This is pretty extreme. I’m really glad they caught someone.
From other articles, it looks like they get paid to take away waste, but instead of taking it somewhere proper that costs money, they dump it illegally. They may have even purchased the land at auction for this purpose. Also, it seems like agencies have been involved since July and they failed to properly shut it down. Ouch.
I saw one estimate that they made £500k through this scheme and an estimate that it will cost £26m to clean up.
Apparently there is more garbage that is buried at the site, and some sections of the pile are heating up and may spontaneously combust, adding a whole new issue to this mess.
The landowner of the neighbouring site said he saw truckloads of rubbish dumped there every night for months.
“I swear, I was going to report it to the authorities first thing tomorrow morning. Honest!”
Who says they didn’t report it the first night?
Well, then any mediocre journalist would be asking the obvious next question, “What in the hell were the authorities doing about it for those months?” That would probably have been a good story.
“If it’s been going on nightly for months, did you report it to anyone?” is an obvious question that people would want to know and the reporter should be asking, along with follow up questions depending on the answer.
That’s the problem with most modern journalists. They’re not doing anything remotely akin to investigative journalism. They’re just doing ask softball questions and regurgitate the answer journalism.
Other articles have apparently been discussing that
Having experience in waste handling, I’m not sure how that estimate at the end came to be, indicating a year long effort to collect and transport the material. It is a remarkable amount of material to be disposed of like this, but it certainly wouldn’t take a year to tidy up.
Bloody c**t! 😡
The agency has said it is conducting a major investigation and coordinating with Oxfordshire County Council, Thames Valley Police, and National Highways.
And they was usin’ up all kinds of cop equipment that they had hangin’ Around the Police Officer Station. They was takin’ plaster tire tracks, Footprints, dog-smellin’ prints and they took twenty-seven 8 x 10 colored Glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of Each one explainin’ what each one was, to be used as evidence against us Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner, the Southwest corner And that’s not to mention the aerial photography!
DON’T TOUCH MY MOUNTAIN OF WASTE!
Something something, another human’s treasure.
to be fair, your bottled cock water usually ends up looking something like this anyways. ask me how i know this if you want
What’s the big deal? Can’t handle living like you’re on an island that trash from the oceans washes up on?
I’m gonna get yelled at for this.
There are better and worse ways to deal with waste.
This is worse.
There are places waste is, by law, supposed to end up and places it isn’t.
You might argue that the law and good environmental sense don’t always agree on where waste should go and how it should be treated, but they’re in clear agreement on this particular dump.
And that means someone is in deep … waste.
