Question for Brits: Why is fly tipping so prevalent?

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I am a self-proclaimed Anglophile and read BBC news daily. I see so many articles talking about illegal fly-tipping (illegal garbage dumping) in various parts of the UK. Why is this? No garbage pickups? Too far to find a place to legally leave garbage? Cost?
 

Slang I've never heard. Here in California similar issues versus when I grew up with anti litter bug and make America beautiful campaigns. Large percentages of our population both legal and not, are from those moving here from other states and other nations. They not surprisingly, also bring along their social and cultural habits that reflect whatever was where they came from. Added to that has been a political change to not caring or enforcing policies. California has plenty of anti littering and anti dumping statutes both state wide and locally, but if those performing enforcement are directed by their management to look the other way and their management are directed by politicians that don't care, the result is the sad trash and inconsiderate behaviors we now see.

Fixing these issues would be easy. Without effective enforcement, a minor percentage of adults, much less children will behave like PIGs unless given unpleasantness.
 

Tom52 said:
Never heard of fly tipping, only cow tipping.
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David777 said:
Slang I've never heard. Here in California similar issues versus when I grew up with anti litter bug and make America beautiful campaigns. Large percentages of our population both legal and not, are from those moving here from other states and other nations. They not surprisingly, also bring along their social and cultural habits that reflect whatever was where they came from. Added to that has been a political change to not caring or enforcing policies. California has plenty of anti littering and anti dumping statutes both state wide and locally, but if those performing enforcement are directed by their management to look the other way and their management are directed by politicians that don't care, the result is the sad trash and inconsiderate behaviors we now see.

Fixing these issues would be easy. Without effective enforcement, a minor percentage of adults, much less children will behave like PIGs unless given unpleasantness.
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My son spent some time in SF hanging around on the street, appalled because of all the litter. He watched people and when he saw someone litter, he went over and persuaded them to pick it up and take it with them, unless there was a trash can nearby. All of the people did as he asked, and many of them apologized to him!
 
David777 said:
Slang I've never heard. Here in California similar issues versus when I grew up with anti litter bug and make America beautiful campaigns. Large percentages of our population both legal and not, are from those moving here from other states and other nations. They not surprisingly, also bring along their social and cultural habits that reflect whatever was where they came from. Added to that has been a political change to not caring or enforcing policies. California has plenty of anti littering and anti dumping statutes both state wide and locally, but if those performing enforcement are directed by their management to look the other way and their management are directed by politicians that don't care, the result is the sad trash and inconsiderate behaviors we now see.

Fixing these issues would be easy. Without effective enforcement, a minor percentage of adults, much less children will behave like PIGs unless given unpleasantness.
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My son works in Long Beach, Ca. as the city grounds superintendent. He has all kinds of stories of what he has to put up with. As well as
what businesses fight daily. They find dead bodies of homeless people from drug overdoses pretty regular.
 
When I lived in New York state for a year, we had an old quarry that filled with water. After it had been abandoned for about 20 years, a scuba diving club was given permission to go diving there for practice, training and testing. During the first day of diving, they discovered finding refrigerators, water heaters, old mattresses, etc.

The owner of the property had all the different materials removed and a cost of over $15,000.
 
Born_To_Lose said:
When I lived in New York state for a year, we had an old quarry that filled with water. After it had been abandoned for about 20 years, a scuba diving club was given permission to go diving there for practice, training and testing. During the first day of diving, they discovered finding refrigerators, water heaters, old mattresses, etc.

The owner of the property had all the different materials removed and a cost of over $15,000.
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it was the same in many places in the Uk...they had to dredge the rivers regularly because supermarkets were losing Ā£Ā£thousands in lost shopping trolleys (carts).. .because people were taking them and throwing in the rivers when they'd finished with them. This all but stopped since the supermarkets introduced a deposit of Ā£1 on all trolleys
 
Fly tipping is not a term that is used here in mid America Big Ag country, but unfortunately the activity itself is practiced.
It isn't at all uncommon when one drives along rural county roads past the miles and miles of farm fields to see see discarded
large appliances like refrigerators and washing machines or worn out furniture like sofas etc., dumped along the roadside or into ditches.
The practice comes with a stiff fine if one is identified as having done it, but annoyingly, catching the perps doesn't usually happen.
 
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