Flytipping in paddock

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Some flytippers left 2 sacks in the paddock my horse is in. One has grass cuttings (and had broken open) and the other had grass turfs in. There are some filthy people in this country. There is a council tip 2 miles away which opens 7 days a week.
 
Fly tipping makes me so sad! I don't understand why people want to ruin our beautiful Countryside by dumping their waste all over it :(

Re the grass cuttings, I'm sure you removed them but on the off chance you didn't they can be very bad for horses if they eat them, the grass starts decomposing very quickly once cut and releases chemicals which can cause colic.

I hope this won't be a recurring problem for you :(
 
I removed them immediately for that reason and put them in my muck trailer. I would love to know where the tipper lives so that I could return it with interest (rest of the trailer contents). I am a bit clumsy with the tractor and might accidentally drop the front loader with bale spikes through his car roof!
 
I agree this is a horrible thing to do and puts your horses at risk. Could you put note on your gate saying grass cutting are dangerous for horses just in case someone thinks they are being helpful?
Fly tipping has increased round here since local council limited access to tip. I went round a bend the other day and there was a 3 seat setee in middle of road.
 
Many years ago, having cleared a field of fly tipped rubbish, I had another load dumped there before we could fence it. I amongst this were a load of envelopes so I loaded it up on a tipper truck and returned it to the owner.
I did knock on the door and ask if they had any rubbish they wanted moving and the lady of the house said her son and husband had just cleared a load.
That was it, I reversed the truck in and dumped it.
Next thing was they called the police who were all for arresting me but I stood my ground, showed the envelopes with their address and told the cop I that if I kept it, I could be booked for stealing by finding.
What made it even better was that it was a very posh house and the wind was blowing!

There is a lot of fly tipping around here - a lot the refuse collectors would take, most could be recycled but people are just to selfish and lazy.

A couple of years ago someone dumped a complete prefabricated concrete garage on the bridle path. I cleared all that, the roof made good rubble and the side panels make good footpaths to the chicken houses.
 
I am assuming that anyone prepared to flytip won't pay attention to animal welfare signs. I have ordered fake CCTV cameras and warning signs to put on the tree by the footpath and layby where they parked.
 
we have a lovely bridleway/footpath up to a common where we are, but it seems to be a regular fly tipping sight, I guess as it is just off a road, a bit out of sight. the other day a massive sofa appeared in the ditch next to the path, needless to say the horses were petrified and it ruined a beautiful pathway. thankfully my friends oh put it in his pick up to dispose of it. also had 4 rolls of carpet dumped about a month ago, a beer keg and tonnes of tyres. disgusting :( especially when free council dumps. I think it is sometimes vans from businesses avoiding a charge at the dump, but they don't even charge them that much
 
I wonder what goes on in people's heads as they drive away from fly tipping? How can someone just not care what they have done?
The local free tips here have just clamped down, making everyone need a special license to tip, even householders. Fly tipping is just going to get worse.
I know someone who volunteers for the local council as a moorland warden and they found a whole chest of drawers standing in a field complete with folded clothes still in the drawers!
 
I honestly don't get it when people dump what could be fitted into a car boot? Can someone enlighten me ? They have 2 options, drive to the tip in daylight chuck it in the skip and enjoy the rest of your day or wait til the middle of the night, drive for a few mile down a country lane chuck it out quick before someone comes then drive home and go back to bed. I seriously can only assume that people are too thick to understand how a council recycling centre works which make me worry that people with such low IQs are allowed to drive a car in the first place.
 
Not exactly fly tipping but found a carrier bag full of food wrappers next to my car outside our yard. Fortunately it also had an envelope with an address so I stuffed it all in a Jiffy bag and posted it back with just a 2nd class stamp. Am hoping who was ever stupid enough to dump it would be stupid enough to pay the excess postage to get his 'parcel'. Sadly I'll never know!
 
Related the story to my farrier this afternoon and he told me that one of my neighbours had several rubbish sacks dumped, found envelopes with the address, went around and dumped it in their garden, banged on their door and demanded £100 for his time and fuel. He paid up! The weird thing is that he had to drive past the local tip to get here.
 
The land which went with the house where I grew up ran alongside a B road in Northumberland, and people quite often lobbed bags of this and that over the hedge. One day I picked up a bag which was heavier than most - really very heavy. I opened it and found the body of the most beautiful young fox-terrier. She had been shot in the head. I was so upset; it haunted me for ages. We told the police but nothing came of it.
 
We were plagued with fly tippers at the entrance to our rented fields which we dealt with in a variety of ways including dragging big items into plain view so as to embarrass dumper but the best incident was dealt with by the police.
A load of car parts had been dumped including some radios which looked fairly new, stolen? We didn't know. Alongside them was a mobile phone, still with life in. My OH phoned police who came out and said to leave the "rubbish" but they'd take the phone. Later they gave us this account:
They kept the phone charged up and when eventually the owner rang it, as you do, they answered and said they'd found it and were willing to return it but he'd have to collect it from them. The chap agreed to meet them at our field's gate at a given time. They said they would be recognisable because they had a white car! No mention of stripes, lights etc.
The chap duly turned up and was made to clear up all of the rubbish in the vicinity before they gave him his phone back. :D:D
No court case as it was genuine rubbish, and no repeat.
 
sunnyone said:
They kept the phone charged up and when eventually the owner rang it, as you do, they answered and said they'd found it and were willing to return it but he'd have to collect it from them. The chap agreed to meet them at our field's gate at a given time. They said they would be recognisable because they had a white car! No mention of stripes, lights etc.
The chap duly turned up and was made to clear up all of the rubbish in the vicinity before they gave him his phone back. :D:D
No court case as it was genuine rubbish, and no repeat.
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OMG police using ingenuity and common sense? Are you sure?? :p
 
I don't think councils think about long term costs- yes it is cheaper to restrict how many people can use council dumps, as it costs them to then dispose or recycle it, and extra charges for vans ect. but then it costs them lots more to pick up fly tipping, as need trained people sometimes with special equipment, so they end up spending a lot more picking fly tipping up.
 
Re the post above^^^.

My gardener can't take any of our garden rubbish for us to the dump (now renamed "recycling center")because he is charged 70 pounds a time because he has a van.

Now I can understand a fee for vans/businesses, but 70 quid? It's not like they don't pay business rates/tax in the first place.

Thing is, even it was just his own household rubbish just like you or I, if he uses his van to to take it, he will be charged that.
 
It's sometimes worth reporting it to your local council and/or Environment Agency as if it's a serial tipper they will go through the stuff and investigate and sometimes succesfully work out from the contents or find clues that lead to who it is and then they're nicely fined :D

Not in your case OP as just garden rubbish but if household or business worth a go.
 
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