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Last year, more than
15,000 tonnes of fly-tipped
waste was cleared from
the streets and open
spaces of the borough.
This mountain of dumped
rubbish cost the council
more than £200,000 of tax
payers’ money to clean up.
I
n March this year, Ealing Council
cleared more than 160 tonnes
of waste from Warren Farm in
Southall alone, costing nearly
£50,000. The perpetrators are
being pursued and it is possible to
trace the waste itself back to the
homes and businesses that paid the
perpetrators to take it away and be
illegally dumped. They could face
big fines. You can watch a video of
the waste at Warren Farm at
ealingnewsextra.co.uk/video/rubbish
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around ealing
Autumn 2016
WHAT IS FLY-TIPPING?
Fly-tipping is the illegal dumping of
waste on land not licensed to receive
it. It could be anything from a single
bag of rubbish, to a mattress or a bed,
to mounds of builder’s rubble and
garden waste. Or, all of that and more.
Not only does it cost a substantial
amount of public money to clear up,
it can be dangerous to health, and
pollutes our land and waterways.
ANTI-SOCIAL AND DANGEROUS
Councillor Bassam Mahfouz, the
council’s cabinet member for transport,
environment and leisure, said: “You
have a legal responsibility to ensure
that your waste
is disposed of
properly. Some
people may think that
giving someone who isn’t
registered a few quid to cart
off their rubbish is harmless. But
it is not. They are unscrupulous and
will dump the waste wherever they
can. It then becomes you, as local
taxpayers, who end up paying for it
to be cleared up.
“But that is not all. If illegally
dumped waste is traced back to your
property, you could be fined thousands
of pounds. There is often more
evidence of where it originated from