"Now here is a fact to make you sit up. In the three years to last November, the city of Sheffield recorded a rather whopping (but by no means exceptional) 441,361 instances of fly-tipping. In the same period, it managed to catch and prosecute exactly one person" Bill Bryson
This is my chamber of horrors, examples of how litter and flytipping are despoiling the countryside. If you have any examples of your own, please email them in and I'll be delighted to publish them.
Builder's rubble fly-tipped on Aggs Hill, near Cheltenham. June 2008
Drinks and pizza litter A435 near Cowley, April 2008. This was left one day after Cotswold District Council had litter picked this stretch of road
Nest of Coke cans, Cleeve Hill, Cheltenham, Sept 2008.
"Luv'in it" and leaving it. McLitter A435, Cheltenham, Sept 2008
Skol! Cans dumped in gateway. Nettleton, Gloucestershire Sept 2008
Flytipping near Brimpsfield Gloucestershire, Sept 08.
Another example of the work of the Dog Sh*t Preservation Society. I think it's great that dog owners are picking up their pouches poo and most of them have sussed it out that the idea is to take it home with you. But it takes a special kind of idiocy to think that putting in a plastic bag then leaving it on the verge is the right thing to do. You find them hanging from wire fences and gate posts too. Pehaps they should provide instructions with the bags.
Fly tipped rubbish on lane near Chapmans Cross, Sapperton, Gloucestershire. November 2008
Carlsberg's contribution to the countryside. Whittington, Gloucestershire Nov 08.
Rubbish fly-tipped and burnt on woodland track, Sapperton, Gloucestershire. March 2009
Litter dumped on Aggs Hill Lane, Gloucestershire Nov 2009
Fly tipping, Aggs Hill, Gloucestershire Nov 2009
Detritus left by campers, Whitehouse Beach, Essex. (Photo Frank Belgrove)
Nest of Coke cans, Cleeve Hill, Cheltenham, Sept 2008.
Flytipping near Brimpsfield Gloucestershire, Sept 08.
Another example of the work of the Dog Sh*t Preservation Society. I think it's great that dog owners are picking up their pouches poo and most of them have sussed it out that the idea is to take it home with you. But it takes a special kind of idiocy to think that putting in a plastic bag then leaving it on the verge is the right thing to do. You find them hanging from wire fences and gate posts too. Pehaps they should provide instructions with the bags.
Fly tipped rubbish on lane near Chapmans Cross, Sapperton, Gloucestershire. November 2008
Carlsberg's contribution to the countryside. Whittington, Gloucestershire Nov 08.
Rubbish fly-tipped and burnt on woodland track, Sapperton, Gloucestershire. March 2009
Litter dumped on Aggs Hill Lane, Gloucestershire Nov 2009
Fly tipping, Aggs Hill, Gloucestershire Nov 2009
Detritus left by campers, Whitehouse Beach, Essex. (Photo Frank Belgrove)