Fly-tippers cost island thousands

Thursday 9th September 2010, 2:28PM BST.

States Works general manager Nigel Dorey retrieves black sacks of rubbish dumped in the bushes at North Beach. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 1023824)

FLY-TIPPING is costing States Works up to £3,000 a year, according to its general manager, Nigel Dorey.

Two one-tonne bags of flytipped electrical equipment were removed recently from Valnord Hill, St Peter Port.

‘We get about one call a week for fly-tipping,’ he said.

‘Someone has to go and collect it, so for those jobs, costing a conservative estimate of £50 a job, it’s a total of between £2,500 and £3,000 a year.’

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Gnasher

September 9, 2010 at 2:52 pm

And it’ll get worse now that Val Cameron is imposing her UK-based nonsense on the Island. She claims that making anyone transporting or dealing with waste (which includes a plumber or electrician taking away an empty box from site in the back of his car) will make everyone compliant and weed out the bad boys who fly tip.

Utter tosh. Overpaid job justification Ms C and nothing more.

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carts

September 9, 2010 at 4:12 pm

Gnasher has hit the nail on the head. If tradesmen and delivery drivers are now going to have to register to be “waste disposal” companies then they’ll just leave their rubbish on site for the customer to dispose of and, at this stage it could end up anywhere. The States are desperate to prove their green credentials but ill-thought out bureaucracy won’t keep litter off the streets or reduce waste…it’ll just create more jobs for civil servants!

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3
slep

September 9, 2010 at 6:23 pm

Whoever dumped those one-tonne bags must have been really strong.

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Steve

September 9, 2010 at 7:36 pm

Just for clarification.
Sole traders and businesses with less than (I think) 3 vehicles.
Can register FOC for an exemption.

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