'Outrageous' mountain of fly-tipping dumped on street junction
This is a disgusting heap of fly-tipped rubbish left outside a Birmingham park.
In a depressingly familiar sight across the city, criminals dumped a pile of mattresses, furniture, wooden boards, blankets and other household waste on the junction of Ward End Park Road on Thursday morning, May 1, instead of disposing it at a tip.
Community activist Javed Iqbal filmed scenes in which he branded the perpetrators "scumbags" who "give the whole community a bad name."
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He said: "Uncollected rubbish is bad enough, but fly-tipping on this scale is outrageous.
"We need action, those responsible must be caught, convicted, and held accountable.
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"Let's work together to demand change and protect our communities."
Meanwhile, councils will be encouraged to seize and crush vehicles used by fly-tippers, under a scheme being led by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Drones and mobile CCTV cameras will be deployed to identify cars and vans belonging to fly-tippers so they can be destroyed.
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Anyone caught of transporting fly-tipping could face jail sentences of up to five years.
Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Steve Reed said: "Waste criminals and fly-tippers who blight our towns and villages have gone unpunished for too long.
"That ends today. The Government is calling time on fly-tipping. I will not stand by while this avalanche of rubbish buries our communities.
"Under the Plan for Change, this Government will seize and crush fly-tippers vans' to clean up Britain's streets."
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