Britain's Illegal Fly Tipping Gangs: Exposed | Rubbish Tip Britain | Dispatches | Channel 4

[@dazwalkingman]

Councils are the problem we used to be able to go to the tip now we have to pay a fortune just to get rid of our rubbish while still paying massive council tax fees

[@bdiamond545]

😂 I bet you blame everyone else for all your problems

[@JC-zv3cv]

@@davepeters3317 ...Did you actually watch the documentary?..it literally starts with a story about getting rid of a sofa.

[@JC-zv3cv]

People are the problem..not councils..people create far too much rubbish, buy far too much unnecessary crap, accept too much unecassary packaging..and are happy to buy items that have short lives and built in obsolesence.

[@desretroreels4949]

Wrong.... it's the thieving government 😉

[@pkkerley6028]

your fu*kin rubbish you deal with it.

[@mfx1]

Council waste policies are a major reason for this, my private/work vehicle is a van but because of that I can't take my domestic waste to a council dump without paying simply because I drive a van.

[@jordan8168]

exactly its a joke, and the other point is they let tippers in but not Luton's which is stupid its the same van on the same chassis just a different body

[@garethhanford8723]

You are allowed here in Swannsea to use a van as long as its not labelled.

[@MartinClarke-bj4fo]

You can get vouches upto 12 times a year to dump your rubbish not anyone else's

[@george-ev1dq]

I have to book at least two weeks in advance to use the local recycling centre, when going to the recycling centre you must arrive inside a 15 minute timeframe and produce photographic ID to enter the site, since this system was introduced fly tipping has been happening all over the borough.

[@electrickal1]

@@george-ev1dq Fucking wankers mate.

[@bwghall1]

Hi I am 85 years old. when I was a boy we a family of 5. we had a dustbin. we put it out once a week. it was never full to over flowing. But today 30/06/2024. the ashes went on the garden Path. all paper was burned. when I went to the shops we had our own containers and we were served from a storage bin, now retailers pack and repack every thing. retailers are drowning us all in packaging Amazon one of the worst. and supermarkets are a nightmare. anything to extend shelf life and pence.Wheres this country going to be in 50 years time. rivers full of poop. this Little Island is being Ruined. by Politician not putting there foot down with LAWS.

[@2wfit]

Respect to you Sir for calling it out.

[@KC-603]

@@bwghall1 Bless your heart on your longevity! I'm 62 and as I take my daily walk the amount of trash I see is abysmal! I do my part around my apartment, plus recycle all I can. The amount of people that care verses the ones that don't is alarming and sad to me! Take Care! Blessings from New Hampshire USA 👏

[@BaneHuntress]

We have the world we have because ppl poisoning food and medicine that killed random innocent people. That would have been your generation. Now, I get angry corn of the cob doesnt come in it's own leaves, but 3 layers of plastic the last time I bought it in a sale. But I also like my food and drink as uncontaminated with rodent and insect crap as I can thanks ^_^

[@MichaelPickles]

Totally agree, also the culture is changing to something that is not British. That culture trash their own environment. Now we've imported it

[@MHLivestreams]

Yes, we has plenty of clink in the garden! Good times.

[@marklobban3949]

Right so last Xmas my partner rang her council to get a permit for a van at the local tip, we got a permit hired a van and it took me a good couple of hours to fill it, got to the tip to be told the van was to big in height and I couldn't go in so we tried another tip who take large vans and because she was half a mile out the catchment zone they wouldn't let us in. Tried the private waste site who by the time we messed about with councils had all closed. I had to pay for the van for another day and empty it all back in her garden. I'm well against fly tipping but I'll be honest that day I was so very easily tempted to drop the lot in a lay by somewhere. Make it easier again for people to go to the tip and this will stop

[@1234Cheesus]

Did the local council tip state there were height restrictions? The problem is businesses (van clearances etc) are using domestic tips to get rid of their waste for free whilst charging to tip it legally.

[@laurakeightley9882]

Very good point, nz is having similar issues

[@jackjoyce1744]

The local dump situation is a total joke. A few years ago, me and my dad needed to get rid of some rubble from a patio we’d built. They wanted to charge us £100 to take it. My dad said that I pay £2k a year in council tax and that they’ll be picking it out a lay by tomorrow when I fly tip it. These councils are just encouraging illegal fly tipping.

[@1234Cheesus]

@@jackjoyce1744 unfortunately the overwhelming majority of council tax does not go to waste; but it’s the only service the majority of people see/use.

[@theacoustician6741]

So many people here don't get it, local councils collect council tax, the majority goes to county unless a London Borough, large metropolitan or unitary authority. Local authority is a collection authority and county/unitary etc. Is a disposal authority, the regulator is the Environment Agency. Local authorities have some powers and can take action when business tries to dispose of commercial waste at domestic civic amenity sites or in domestic collections as the tax payer should not be subsidising a business it pays for its own waste collections and disposal. The Environment Agency used to be spot on and we're on top of regulation and would come down hard on transgression, now they are a waste of space and even when presented with all the evidence, video, photos, observation logs, documentation and s.9 statements they do not act, they are not fit for purpose. Give LA's there budgets and powers and these problems would be sorted.

[@H4WK6969]

Fly tipping wouldn't exist if councils provided adequate services but instead the government and councils are increasing taxes, reducing services and pocketing the rest.

[@bdiamond545]

😂 I bet you blame everyone else for all your problems

[@ellyess7203]

I have to agree. It has become so difficult and very expensive to get rid of waste and large items no longer of use.

[@massurname7940]

exactly lol

[@PoseidonDiver]

Bingo!

[@Drunk3nMonk3y72]

I bet it would. The amount of dodgy rubbish/waste clearance businesses there are that dont want to pay the license fees to get rid of waste is the problem, as well as chvvy twats, gypos and illegal immigunts trying to make a quick cash

[@edwardferry8247]

I’m a landowner, these are dangerous people. It’s no joke when they target your land to pick up and transfer waste, council drivers are involved too. If you have farmland it’s a guaranteed problem. It’s got so much worse post pandemic. The lady who says “why is it still going on” is exactly the position individuals are left in. Thank you for highlighting this.

[@ellyess7203]

I really feel for you. I found on the other side of the coin that it is much more difficult and more expensive to get rid of waste. The local tip used to be a pleasure to visit. It became a kind of torture. But I would never contaminate the countryside, least of all a farm and never fly tip. It is a repulsive thing to do.

[@edwardferry8247]

@@ellyess7203 thank you, yes it’s very difficult for people financially I definitely understand that too.

[@bigturboxr3i]

You do have a shotgun don't you?

[@MHLivestreams]

I had bags full of empty bottles dumped on my land, had to get rid of it myself in recycling bins over time.

[@edwardferry8247]

@@bigturboxr3i they do, as the program mentions these are serious criminals, I’m way out of my depth, they aren’t people you say clear off to.

[@eeemuse]

We need to learn from Finland how easy it is to recycle anything for free (you even get paid in some circumstances). Here, the council only gives a few free collections per year, and it's complicated to visit the recycling centre.

[@renegade-master29]

Fly tipping should be legal but only outside of official council buildings, lol

[@goodnightmyprince6734]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LayLoow]

Outside downing st

[@bdiamond545]

😂 I bet you blame everyone else for all your problems

[@lukestagg2138]

I do rubbish clearance, never in a million years would this enter my head! When I first started, I lost a lot of money missing pricing jobs, not knowing the most cost effective ways to dispose of some items, but never, NEVER have I been “tempted” to fly tip. I love where I love and I want to keep it beautiful. Infact, I’ve cleared fly tipped waste out my own pocket. This infuriates me because it gives us all a bad name 🤬🤬

[@ellyess7203]

I'm so sorry these criminals put good guys like you under suspicion. Make sure you tell people you are an honest and ethical waste recycler and remover. Good for you, you deserve to do well. I wish I cold find someone like you.

[@lukestagg2138]

@@ellyess7203 thank you for your kind words, thank fully it on Checkatrade with well over 400 reviews so am trusted locally. The cost of disposal is crazy and some people will always want the “cheaper” option, which rarely gets disposed of properly 😔

[@audreyblack8629]

The ones they caught were not British and all came from the same demographjc! Diversity is our strength ...not! Travellers get away with it all the time as well, and taxpayers pick up the tab! They get cash in hand and pay no tax!

[@robertb7643]

Could you share some of those methods?

[@Jamessansome]

My local council recycling centre has recently started allowing limited quantities of rubble to be disposed of per week. You have your registration taken and quantities logged so if you start disposing of alot of material they'll obviously stop you doing it as its likely commercial. This is the best way of doing it. Fly tipping was always going to increase when our recycling centres stopped accepting limited household rubble etc. for free.

[@EthanLomas]

Common sense wins 👍

[@simonsays5722]

Our local council make us sort and organise our rubbish into seperate bins and ive seen first hand that all the waste is just dumped at the same place ,, (A) making us sort it (B)charges go up every year .. (C) If you get one bit of waste/rubbish in the wrong bin they refuse to take it

[@Noname-oo9gn]

Same in Wales.

[@riverdeep399]

Same. Plus they are shutting tips in the area. Council is a joke.

[@1234Cheesus]

You saw inside an incinerator did you?

[@NOT_SURE..]

@@1234Cheesus I did , i worked on the bin lorries in lincolnshire 3 years ago and it all goes to the incinerator

[@1234Cheesus]

@@NOT_SURE.. what all the recycling went to an incinerator?

[@realitywinner7582]

well done Dispatches and the whistle-blowers .God Bless ye !

[@TheTacticalHaggis]

Just Karens

[@PoseidonDiver]

for wasting how much money to make a 45 documentary that was unnecessary??? To indirectly tell everyone that the problem is the council? christ!

[@nickhill2223]

Mattress at the end of the film may have been making it's way legally down the Thames. Assuming it had been dropped off at a Transfer Station before being loaded onto a Barge belonging to Cory, who have taken waste out of London along the River to Landfill on the Essex Marshes, and now an Incinerator at Belvedere for many years.

[@iankennedy1441]

Our Grandfathers and Grandmothers used to take pride in the community

[@morgan3625]

The people who do it have no attachment to this land or its history

[@lukestagg2138]

@@morgan3625you’re absolutely spot on

[@anomonyous]

There used to BE A COMMUNITY! A homogenous nation of tradition and style and civility. Not a modernist minimalist concrete globalist American sh. hole full of randoms from everywhere who only care about getting 1 thing from the country.

[@DOCTORDROTT]

@@morgan3625 spot on

[@markmcarthur2090]

@@morgan3625 Absolutely.

[@xavilend]

My nearest tip is a 45min drive away on the other side of the city, my local ones were 10 and 15 mins away, all closed in recent years. It's clear what the source of the problem is.

[@riverdeep399]

And yet councils want to close multiple rural tips and charge extra for collections of garden waste. Fly tipping will become even more rampant. A 60-70 mile round trip to take something to the tip. My grandparents would roll in their grave at the state.

[@dronegeeks]

It is illegal to shoot down a drone in the uk or even attempting to do so, please look into this further.

[@H4WK6969]

Im pretty sure using a firearm to damage someones property is illegal yes.

[@lukestagg2138]

It was most likely a bird scarer, they have them at most landfill sights.

[@alansharman3644]

@@H4WK6969 I believe the civil aviation authority would be keen to hear about it as it falls under their jurisdiction and shooting down drone is a lot more frowned upon and could see you paying a hefty fine and or doing time.

[@angeley3756]

But it's OK for them to fly it from inside a car with BVLOS 😂

[@Fbxoutdoor]

Legal because nobody has firearms 😂

[@5084204]

I'm a registered waste carrier (lower tier, as it's a requirement for the sole trader of my profile ). Local tip charges me £35 for a cubic meter of garden waste. You would have to pay me minimum £70 to make it even remotely worthwhile to use my vehicle, time, fuel and muscles. I avoid like a plague anything related to the waste and clearly state it in my T&Cs. Anyone removing your grass offcuts for a £40 - will fly tip. Enjoy this knowledge.

[@MHLivestreams]

Councils offer garden waste bins in many areas, so it's less of an issue, at least it's biodegradable unlike the plastic, glass, silicon, etc. sad that it's all such an issue really.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

This wouldn't be an issue if council dumps and "waste recycling centres" weren't run on the same access rules as a Category A prison, for starters. Some of the rules and the jobsworth behaviour is just ludicrous. I'm paying higher council tax than ever and my local tip was "modernised" and "upgraded" - it now has an ANPR-powered automated gate and a brand new escape lane for people who don't have a booking and can't get through. It's also now closed on Wednesdays and only open between 10-4 on a Sunday. Before these "improvements" anyone could rock up on demand, it was open seven days a week, things were fine. There was no need to change it.

[@stevehankins513]

There was a jobsworth at our local recycling centre when always came out with his 1.3 metre ruler every time I took my small trailer & i added a box on the front separate from the main trailer for ratchet straps & was told on that occasion he'd let it go but I couldn't take my trailer again unless I removed the box. I had to make 1 last trip with the trailer before we moved house so took along a packet of bourbon biscuits with me & as he cam out with his ruler in hand a swiftly got out & passed him the packet of bourbon biscuits & said I thought he could have them with a cuppa at break time and what do you know he was so preoccupied putting his bourbons in his bate box he totally forgot to measure my trailer 😂

[@ellyess7203]

Well said. Before covid mine used to help me - I'm disabled. After covid you queue for hours hoping they don't close before your turn, doing hill starts that are painful because you are disabled and when you get in they won't help you lift heavy stuff. It is so miserable I started to cry - I was in pain, a young man also taking his rubbish there came and helped me and they shouted at him to move his car!

[@1234Cheesus]

So you’re happy for a significant portion of the tips budget to go towards paying for landlords, private waste clearance firms, developers etc. to get rid of their commercial waste for free all out of the council taxpayers pocket, whilst legitimate firms have to pay for their waste disposed to be disposed of? All of those restrictions are put in place to stop 50% of the cost going towards rats gaming the system

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

👆👆👆 That!!

[@robertb7643]

@@stevehankins513😂😂 real Englishman would’ve refused a cash bribe but not the biccys

[@CitiesForTheFuture2030]

Curitiba (Brazil) has a fantastic waste management & recycling system - 75 % participation in recycling (much material feeds into their low income housing program) - food for waste program in low income communities - for larger items you can book a collection truck through your local municipality - a hazardous waste truck has scheduled collection points located near transit hubs where residents can drop off any hazardous material for safe disposal on set days The city runs a "Trash that is not trash" program in schools. Kids also learn about their city and why they should protect the environment. The city also has a free University of the Environment - traders requiring a city license to operate are required to take course(s). The city offers residents tax rebates if they conserve the city's official tree on their property, and developers for including green spaces in their projects. Curitiba does not have a litter or waste dumping problem, and incidence of denge fever has plummeted 98% Where there's a will, there's a way...

[@JohnDoe-lx3dt]

Too bad the rest of Brazilian government is so damn corrupt.

[@saucespicy5683]

on the other hand they kill someone in Curitba for five dollars

[@fauxparr]

That's amazing

[@chrism2279]

In Australia, Councils do an annual "hard rubbish" collection from the kerbside. We also get free tip tokens each year. Doesn't stop fly-tipping entirely but I have never seen anything like what was shown in the doco.

[@nellymoo635]

Tip passes are for homeowners, included in your yearly rates? So not free.

[@Ali-iqq1z]

Not everywhere. I haven't heard of the free tokens myself, nor do we have hardwaste kerbside here. I've seen it elsewhere though.

[@lukestagg2138]

We used to love those collection days, came home with heaps of cool random stuff from the kerbside 😂

[@shadowkitten4625]

hippity hoppity

[@jamesrankin4232]

I live in a city in spain. You Just put any domestic big waste out on a sunday. It doesn't fly tipping here either!

[@sammuddel7751]

Disgusting behaviour. I will never understand. Even people who just dash a wrapper out the window when driving. Whats wrong with you give yaself a slap!

[@Countryboy071]

The privatisation of many former government run departments has led to so many problems.

[@Kat-k6e]

Yes, the quangos are a major problem.

[@georgeosborne6878]

As soon as they open there mouths you just know

[@dean6816]

exactly what I thought!!

[@HenryTheOunce]

I dont understand why doctors and engineers would pretend to be waste disposal people and end up fly tipping how strange

[@jwright4222]

Now now. Stop noticing things and get on with your life, nothing to see here...

[@Mrdogface12]

Doctors do it to earn extra money between surgeries.

[@masterp3134]

Seems like the ethnic community are running these so called businesses... funny that 😄

[@mohammedriyadh5965]

​@@Snakeblokehe was born here, the boss of Dawson Environmental. Stop blaming others for your issues.

[@obid7755]

@@mohammedriyadh5965 Nah. Not our people. And it appears its not our people responsible for the majority of fly tipping we see here.

[@cbjgdicad1]

Why not make it law that the people who pick up the waste have to photograph it at the site where they deliver it and give the photographs to the people who paid them.

[@marklittler784]

Before the people pay them maybe.

[@notpoliticallycorrect1303]

On the little Industrial estate where my workshop is there is one other garage. We are in a remote rural location and get the odd scrap man round. I don't give any scrap or old oil to anyone without seeing their waste handling licence first after the guy who runs the other garage gave a scrap man an old engine and a pile of old discs etc. both he and the scrap man were being watched by the environment agency who promptly visited his workshop and had the police stop the scrap man up the lane,he had no licence it was the garage owners duty to check before giving scrap away,despite the fact that it wasn't going to be fly tipped but sold to a proper registered scrap treatment plant(no one fly tips scrap metal.)both got very heavily fined.

[@marklittler784]

@@notpoliticallycorrect1303 Looks like they were watching the scrap merchant not the garage though.

[@notpoliticallycorrect1303]

@@marklittler784 Sorry fella,I should have explained a bit better or worded the first reply better,that's the danger of posting after alcohol😁.It was actually the garage they were watching,they just happened to be lucky to catch the scrap guy. After periods of rain the toilets in our units would fill up to almost the top of the bowl and release a pungent sewerage odour. The water/sewerage company while investigating the cause, which due to being in a rural location was suspected of being leaves,discovered that the blockage was caused by about 50-60 old oil filters and surmised that the garage was using the drains to dispose of them and old oil. It transpired that the culprit was a courier company on the same block of units who serviced their own vans,it was traced back to their drain using some sort of dye apparently. The garage owner and scrap guy were just unlucky through coincidence,the courier company owner scarpered back to India and escaped prosecution.

[@carlbell1715]

Wait ,,,,that makes sense.

[@rosiejane5292]

Weaponised fly tipping and land grabbing local authorities are responsible for this mess

[@jwright4222]

Yup. Local councils are the epitome of bureaucracy and are professionals at spending tax payers money.

[@electrickal1]

@@jwright4222 Absolute arseholes mate. Everyone refused entry needs to dump their shit in a field until we win back or civil rights.

[@pauledwards5954]

We should rent court rooms and take the council bosses to court

[@Andre-kc9di]

​@@pauledwards5954we should make the councils British again not full of foreigners

[@bobb2580]

Local councils are not helping the problem. Council-run household rubbish centres have become almost impossible to access to dispose of household waste, with so many restrictions on what waste they will take, even restricting the number of visits households can make within a given period. What should households do with everything that falls short of the rules? The local council is of no help. Hence, householders call a local collection services and they fly-tip the rubbish. It's a vicious circle! at some point the councils need to take a stand on this, with education and providing trusted services for household disposals. if the UK councils (local government) cant deal with problem waste then it should become a government issue. it about ownership of the problem and where does that fall! if we cant deal with the waste, then we shouldn't be allowing the production and sales of those items that ultimately become the problems for waste disposal services.

[@bdiamond545]

😂 I bet you blame everyone else for all your problems

[@lukestagg2138]

I’d sooner lose money then ever fly tip, please don’t tar us all with the same brush

[@marklittler784]

Bet they were crapping themselves when they saw that drone 😅🤸😂🤸😂🤸🤣

[@ellyess7203]

Shocking! Disgusting! Plain criminal! I hope they get caught, Well done for your detective work, excellent filming and exposing the problem. Many thanks.

[@kawlamchong9183]

One of the things I hated about my former boss was he never spent money on waste disposal whether builder waste or organic waste (waste from the canteen I meant). He either goes behind my back to get his 'right-hand men' to burn the rubbish on site or if not flammable rubbish then his JCB driver will sort it out, Dig a huge hole where the raised floor is supposed to be, and then backfill with mud. The safety and health officer who came to 'assess risks' on site is a waste of time, doing 'tick the box' job. I as a site manager incidentally am a migrant worker. It is either shut my mouth or I stop supporting your work permit. The system with the Coventry Council, NHBC, HSE what else are pieces of joke. The Queen even gave him an MBE to my former boss for 'contributing to Coventry. He claims to be a reputable builder in Coventry. NUTS! Anyway, I was bullied by him and also bullied and harassed by his fellow 'right-hand men', physical assault included. It was so severe that my mental health went downhill exponentially and ended up in a mental health facility for 9 months to receive treatment. The doctor did a very good job using electro-convulsion 20 times before I realised suicide was a shame to my family and my community. The doctor must have done a very good job of convincing me not to go back to work, I am sure he has researched the company I have worked for more than 20 years. One ward round day, he told every junior doctor ward manager nurse in the room that 'the gentleman has been bullied too severely and for far too long' The day he discharged me from the hospital he said to me 'You have built enough for Coventry, It is time to take care of yourself which you have neglected for far too long'. Finally, I wanted to say I escaped bribery and corruption in my home country yet bribery and corruption are common and rampant in the building industry in the so-called first world too

[@EthanLomas]

You sound like a good man. I hope you can find peace and happiness 🤗

[@JD-gc7lt]

If they were actually shooting at a drone, that’s a huge crime and should be reported

[@MrTuts4life]

Endangering an aircraft, very serious.

[@John-eo4zm]

In my area it is ALL Bulgarian and Romanians. I reported 4 “waste removal” who are dumping to the council. Not interested. So I just pay more council tax and these bums claim benefits and work cash in hand. Bravo UK 👏

[@Andre-kc9di]

Our councils are foreign now so this isn't a problem

[@ruthholland4064]

Oh yes,you are racist for reporting them.

[@PoseidonDiver]

clearly its the council that is at fault if they do nothing.. the council is probably running the fly tipping operation!

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

Should do one about where the contents of portaloos goes! Friend of mine had her life ruined when the farmer at the end of her lane started having the contents delivered to his farm and sprayed on the fields surrounding her home. We couldn't visit it was eye watering. Her house is worthless and the council won't step in because it would cost too much to battle.

[@valerieneal2747]

That is disgustingly outrageous

[@ThomasAubrey-f7e]

That's fucked up... Poor women. Farmer Phil needs a slap ,🤣🤣

[@neiltaylor6466]

I work for a recycling center and we are not allowed to take any trade or commercial waste as we don't hold the respective licences to take it,but seeing this has been an eye opener how fake companies and Criminals flaunt the law,when they get caught they should be made to clean up all the waste they have dumped and taken to respective official sites for no payments or recognition

[@TheTacticalHaggis]

LICENCE FOR THROWING AWAY RUBBISH LMAO

[@fionagregory9147]

Centre is spelt like this unless you are a yank!

[@1234Cheesus]

Flytippers wont even bother with the hassle of taking it to a hwrc

[@Diptera_Larvae]

The people who created non recyclable products don’t care where the waste goes and the people who are responsible for disposing of it correctly don’t care. And yet ‘we’ the people care and suffer for it.

[@matthewdyer4752]

Excessive amounts of council tax + cost of living drives these criminals. If the government cared they would just accept all waste and prevent this 'crimewave'.

[@patc7573]

I’d say Uncontrolled mass immigration drives this & a long list of issues in UK. If we had border control & the Govt stopping letting in record numbers of 3rd world migrants against the will of the people, 90% of the people doing this wouldn’t even be in the country!!

[@Angel-j8e]

This is shocking in Barnsley too… landlords are shocking for dumping rubbish and new and old tenants.. Mattresses left by tenants mainly Romanian tenants, after they flee in large groups.. We need stricter rules and more police on the streets .

[@TwoFingeredMamma]

I agree, I think they should get rid of cash make everything digital so everything can be traced. I think everuone should have a microchip inserted under the skin so they can be tracked 24/7. Then if you put RFID chips in every product the govenment can know the location of every object and person on the planet. It would be way better living in a tyranical dictatorship.

[@Kat-k6e]

I can't agree with you more.

[@billmartins5545]

Are these law breakers mostly foreigners?

[@Christina-g4s]

Nah, British as you and I 😂

[@anomonyous]

​@@Christina-g4sLmao

[@justinfowler5761]

Lol​@@Christina-g4s

[@pkkerley6028]

Of coarse they are just look at the shit holes they come from, living in your own crap is a lifestyle choice for most of them,

[@kevinjohn725]

Correct 99% of them ,they dont t care about our country,

[@PerthGav]

Welcome to the UK. Lots of good laws, zero enforcement.

[@GerBourke]

If I pissed on the side of the road I would go to prison but if I destroy some of the planet I get paid for it and endanger lives

[@brucegarrod]

7:09 dont forget to take the lens cap off when you do a mock up... ;)

[@Morbazan125]

Make it easier for people to get rid of waste

[@bornenit309]

The environment regulators have been investigating the waste site for 5 years. How much time do you need?? Pathetically slow.

[@army764]

There’s a trend with all the fly tippers they have met so far.

[@pkkerley6028]

Importing grime and crime, (the only UK success story)

[@RattyAlphabet]

Usual suspects

[@EthanLomas]

I noticed they were predominantly peaceful folk

[@pieproducer]

Why on earth do investigators have to blur out the faces of criminals.name and shame ffs

[@marklittler784]

Possibly pre judicial it could damage any process of further proceedings taking place.

[@pieproducer]

@@marklittler784 its ridiculous.surely the best and probably the most cost effective way of putting a stop to this and other crimes and also to make people think twice about commiting crime in future is to let the public know exactly who they are as and when they are caught.

[@patc7573]

Can’t let people see who the criminals are. That could be racist

[@anomonyous]

​@@pieproducerPerhaps. And we all know how slimey journos are when it comes to protecting certain people and exposing others. But they really ought to protect everyone, unless asked otherwise. It's called journalistic integrity. And there's a bunch of legal issues with it as well. I'm sure the police got hands on all the footage unblurred.

[@marklittler784]

@@pieproducer Pro's and cons Justice system is expensive but in probably Viet Nam a lost young brother and sister were mistakenly killed because they suspected they were there trying to steal a scooter!!!!

[@laurakeightley9882]

Please keep tht kid speaking on the leachate safe. His identity should have been hidden!

[@philbamford6957]

You pay council tax for rubbish disposal,but when the councils move the goal posts and want you to pay twice for services what do they expect is going to happen.

[@bdiamond545]

😂 I bet you blame everyone else for all your problems

[@visco4916]

if only the council provided tip sites

[@riverdeep399]

if only the council wasn't closing 4 to save a measley 14k a year.

[@bdiamond545]

​@@riverdeep399😂 I bet you blame everyone else for all your problems

[@tincan648]

IN France its free, commercial and domestic a good tip in every town. WHY oh WHY we do not do this in the UK. The cost of clearing flytips will out weigh any other cost, its ridiculous.

[@gailplatt1]

No1 would need to fly tip if we could take rubbish somewhere

[@alistairchafer188]

not everyone has access to a van or even transport but agree it would help for most people, i feel like a criminal when take stuff to the tip, its made hard for those who want to do the right thing and council pick up the tab so in long run we all better off.

[@Indigenous51]

THE GOVERNMENT AND COUNCILS ARE RESPONSIBLE AND CORRUPT ! THEY KNOW FULL WELL WHATS HAPPENING BUT DO NOTHING ! AND WHY HIDE THE FACES OF THE CULPRITS !

[@mrfoameruk]

People are weird. We had cardboard dumped outside our house. On it was the address down the road so I dumped it back into their garden. The thing is it was cardboard and for some reason they decided to fly tip it over putting it in their own paper bin,

[@bdiamond545]

😂 I bet you blame everyone else for all your problems

[@gailplatt1]

@@bdiamond545 wish u could

[@samlui3591]

Councils are clearly not doing enough since cctv nowaday cost about £20 and i could easily get the vans registration if i wanted.

[@Brad-l4s]

Part of the problem is they are hard to prosecute. A large percentage of large fly tips are committed by members of certain travelling communities,, that use deception and undetectability as a way of life.

[@ET-jv1wm]

I had a massive fight with my boss a few years over fly tipping. We had a full tipper trailer load of soil and rubble from a job we did, and he didn't want to pay for disposal. He told me to find a country road and dump it on the verge. I said, "No I'm not fucking fly-tipping mate" his response was, it's not fly-tipping, it's just releasing the soil back into its natural environment"😂😂 I still refused though!

[@eryljones2780]

Were too soft in this Country, Environment agency should be ashamed and we shouldn't be accepting it .

[@BalrajTakhar-u7u]

Doesn't help when the EA has been reduced in size and workers on the ground.

[@TeOriwaWaiariki-qr3ch]

This country needs to push for Prisons to have their Prisoners cleanup the Fly Tipping Epedemic as a Punishment or Prisoners in Lockup for Flytipping Assigned to clean it up across the country☝🏾💯

[@charleswillcock3235]

This video shows very clearly what is wrong with the environment agency - which is obviously pathetic.This problem should be vigorously tackled. But nothing happens.The fines are too small, the enforcement too weak. Councils are also part of the problem as others have identified in these comments.

[@John-tz2tx]

They denied it, shocker, show them the footage.

[@emaa8219]

How it is possible….. this is failure of government

[@sherri9300]

Shame shame ,need to call out this criminals ,just awful !!

[@danielwilson1105]

Why blur criminals faces? Ridiculous

[@christopherleblanc9599]

required to post on youtube or it would get removed, rather see a blurred face then not see the truth about what goes on ,its a compromised fact of filming criminals doing criminal acts,and not just a UK issue , Canada has the same restrictions, it's called deformation of character ,ie innocent until proven guilty by the law or you could get sued for slander as well help the criminal escape being charged ,criminals are better protected then non criminals sad reality of 2024 legal systems

[@yapayzeka930]

The problem is that non of the councils provide commercial waste solutions, even for a small fee would be the solution. This forces tradespeople to pay exorbitant prices to dispose of their waste, costs that are then passed on to their clients. This lack of affordable waste management options is unfair and needs to be addressed.

[@nickhill2223]

This problem is not going to go away. With Landfill's rapidly filling up, and other ways of getting rid of waste few and far between, the cost of legitimate disposal is not cheap, hence why, there is a lucrative trade in illegal dumping. Anyone shouting for Council's to make the Tips a free for all, are you then happy to subsidise Businesses disposing of their waste, e.g. Property Developers who may produce hundreds of tonnes of waste, some of it more expensive to get rid of, through increased Council Tax? I'm not!

[@TheTacticalHaggis]

We're talking about residential waste, not commercial. Nice try though/

[@fionagregory9147]

No need for that apostrophe in landfills as it is just plural.

[@1234Cheesus]

@@TheTacticalHaggisthe majority of restrictions are put in place to dissuade/reduce commercial waste from being tipped at domestic waste sites at the cost of the taxpayer. Unless like what Nick is saying, you think your council tax should go towards private businesses P&L

[@davidchaplin8619]

Channel 4 , is putting out some incredible content at the moment. moving away from 5 minutes videos that don't do anything justice but they do make more money. shows that channel 4 has some integrity and is willing to do proper journalism and bring awareness to troubling issues. It's so refreshing.

[@meruliouslacrimens5154]

This is largely due to a "Don't care attitude", exhibited by most people, including those who just chuck their rubbish on the floor, not even putting it in a bin. I learnt when i was about 4 that you do Not throw it on the flor, if you make litter when you are out and about, you put it in a bin. If you cannot find a bin, you take it home and put it in the bin there. Later i learnt about the "My little bit won't hurt, so i'll add my little bit to it". But this doesn't work either, because it readily gets out of hand. If a town is kept tidy, you can embarass people to not do it. But to cure it you have really got to come down very hard on the perpetrators.£50,000 fines and/or prison time.

[@EthanLomas]

It’s exactly the same for landlords and people renovating their homes who pay cash. Sky people deserve to live in squalor

[@ThePixey1000]

If councils had a spin off division picking up waste and taking in all the cash would that not put these people out of business.

[@garyz2043]

Councils used to take stuff for free if you called them/Now they want £20 per item.There should be free council skips for local people to use.I cant get rid of the stuff I dont want. Old tv needed throwing away 20 years ago. I'm stuck with it. : {

[@Christina-g4s]

Next time you buy a new TV get them to take the old one

[@1234Cheesus]

Majority of electrical stores (Currys etc) are required to accept old unwanted electrical items (even if not bought from them)

[@jennam8401]

yes they should incentivise doing the correct thing, not penalise you for it!

[@vivienbailey8079]

Thanks for this info 👍🏽

[@Oliviiiful]

The only way to stop this is less consumption, less packaging. and free rubish collection. More laws will only make this problem grow.

[@dazt5831]

the economy can't handle less consumption as that may just push us into a full blown depression based on current stats

[@garysmith7830]

they did all this tracking and not had back up ie the council what a waste of time

[@JT.ACE.T]

Noticing a pattern about these fly tippers, there all foreigners I'll keep watching see if that changes?

[@naitranaitra8196]

If you were paying attention their narrative was that it was an organised group /(cartel) linked to the fly tipping. If they wanted to, they could have found those fly tippers that you so badly want to see, there are quite a few being confronted on youtube and the comments are all about how they are not true natives they are Irish Navvies. It's pathetic really.

[@robertb7643]

English people wouldn’t even have the work ethic to move trash in and out a van of course they’re foreign

[@smithyc2051]

If a minimum of five years in prison for fly tipping was introduced and actually enforced this would stop.

[@EthanLomas]

Resolve the underlying problem first. Brits are obsessed with “punishing” criminals for everything, just like Americans 🤦

[@theresam1963]

With the local council closing the local dump and then now charging £35.00 per large item even to pensioners for what was free, is it any wonder there is rubbish dumped on the street.

[@mogznwaz]

Has anyone else noticed that rubbish and lawlessness has increased in line with mass immigration? Yeah me too

[@museonfilm8919]

Yes, all linked. Yet another way Britain is slowly being turned into a third world country.

[@mrfoameruk]

Tell me about it. I live near Croydon. The dumping/fly-tipping capital of the UK it seems.

[@happyjack7948]

yes sir

[@zosothezephead837]

Could be climate change 😂

[@justinfowler5761]

​@@zosothezephead837lol

[@StephanieRoseie]

Maybe, if they got their license, they would know where to go to dump😒

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

But they don 't S...T on their own doorstep . Funny .

[@PossumPityParty]

One the few things about the States I can see as good. Far from perfect but we have huge to small bins, you pay for that specific option every month. No matter how full. They’ll pick up an extra bin set out in the city I live in. Such a relief

[@justjones5430]

00:05 "We're in east London, and we're following a sofa". I'm imagining a sofa in dark glasses and a baseball cap with a hoodie on lurking in the shadows 😮 🤣

[@Leroyy536]

Councils are useless

[@samuelwilliams3130]

Everyone hates fly-tipping but this is ENTIRELY the councils fault. I own a mid-60's classic american pickup and used it to take some household waste to my local tip and was accused of being a rouge trader trying to fly tip! It does 9mpg, what builder is using this thing as a work vehicle?!?!?! Then wanting to charge people for certain types of waste is absolutely ridiculous. They've engineered this problem on their own, the solution is simple. Let people take their stuff to the tip, for free, when they want or need to.

[@kennymilsom]

I left England for New Zealand in 1979. I went back in 1990. It had already changed so much, I went back to New Zealand. I keep myself updated through video's on KZbin. Sadly, my England has well and truly gone. It is not the England my grandfather and father fought for. It is not our home anymore. The English are now foreigners in their own country. This is not my England.

[@MrStormtroopa]

I live in Cardiff and you can smell the dump when you go to splott beach

[@chrisgoodwill3818]

I think the biggest contribution to this is not being allowed to use a pick up, a trailer or van at the local tip, the rules are a joke! If I had a £150K car, I wouldn’t want to put rubbish in it but not allowed to take a trailer! Only solution is using these private companies and let’s face it… we all go with the cheapest quote!

[@GThu1]

All it would take is to call the service and arrest the drivers when they pick up the trash. It is already illegal. The rest would not dare to go. So why they didn't do it?

[@MHLivestreams]

It shows the junk culture that we've become. Back in the day we didn't really have money to waste on unnecessary crap, and whatever we did buy, cared for it, and it was well made so wouldn't need throwing. Houses had open fires, so random things went up in smoke. Newspapers, old chair legs, etc. November 5th took care of the rest.

[@dazasc3994]

as someone with over 10 years legitimate experience in this industry I can tell you for a fact the issue is that it's so expensive to dispose of rubbish. The govt should be spending however many millions it requires to cover the cost of disposal so that normal people can dispose of stuff for free. Instead for example it's £50 to throw away a fridge officially, it's no wonder they get dumped on street corners then the compressor gets cut out for scrap. I know people making mega money doing illegal waste disposal and it will never ever change.

[@theprov]

Where I live in Salford household waste recycling point don't charge. I can go up to 52 times a year to dump anything for free. Honestly whoever goes more than once or twice a month, it's clearly a trader.

[@electrickal1]

It is absolutely incredible that the councils couldn't see this coming. Around 45 years ago the fly tipping problem was solved overnight by the creation of civic recycling centers, these were the ideal places, locally positioned and paid for by general taxation. However, in the past few years the bean counters in the councils who are all too young to be aware of the past problems have changed the way recycling is carried out, everyone but blind fools knew we would go back to the bad old days where junk refused entry at the civic sites would not be hauled home, rather disposed off in an innocent farmers field somewhere. So until the idiots who are very unfortunately paid their salaries from public funds stand aside and allow common sense to prevail, this problem and many others will get massively worse. My advice to everyone who is refused entry is to dump their junk somewhere, because these clowns are too arrogant to listen, they need to see that we the tax paying public own these facilities and we need to be able to use them when we want.

[@saydvoncripps]

Barnet Council used to have a skip day once a year. They don't do it any more. Neighbours at the end of the road have problems with rats because of the rubbish left there. The council put up a camera. No one even knows if it's real or not, the rubbish keeps appearing anyway, never seen any one turn up or heard of anyone being fined or anything. So, it's going to keep happening.

[@cedriclynch]

Barnet Council's camera is fake. The rats know this.

[@Tony01888]

Fly tipping GANGSTERS I’ve heard it all now

[@MrCode4money]

Fly tipping is definitely a wide spread issue. I live fairly close to the local council recycling centre (aka the tip) and there have been a number of incidents of what I would characterize as small business / sole traders dumping commercial waste. I'm talking about the likes of builders who don't want to pay to dispose of waste. No doubt already having factored in charges for their clients but wanting to make an extra bit of money on top. However when it comes to household large items like old sofas and white goods then the council will often collect those from the house holder. It's a service that my local council provides but would assume that other councils do similar. You ring them up and arrange a collection. I've done it when I needed to get rid of a sofa and it was free. They may charge under certain conditions but it's going to be cheaper than using some shady business. And at least you know that it will be correctly disposed of.

[@darksun4523]

Can I vote for Channel 4 on July 4th?.

[@clungebucket23]

Environment agency employees should be a permanent feature of waste management sites and paid for by the WM company.... Who already pay millions in application and conformity fees...an extra £100k p/a is small change

[@dazt5831]

that would then be passed onto the rest of us, with the increase in licensing fees for 2025 and new legislation meaning waste centres can no longer operate open air sites its now very likely that the price of a standard skip in 2025 will be atleast £550 according to waste operators, maybe if the EA did not charge ridiculous licensing fees then companies would offer their services cheaper

[@DarkCriimes]

Great work CH4 ! Great journalism. This MUST be stopped. Thank you 🙏

[@SiriusXAim]

You have countries that offer free bulk removal. Those places don't have a fly tipping problem. Shocker isn't it? It's a classic case of passing down the buck here. As long as it's cheaper and more convenient to either call a dodgy removal company, or just dump it yourself, people will dump themselves. The solution is simple, make the legal, proper way to get rid of stuff more convenient and cheaper than the dodgy companies.

[@a-khanation5279]

So people actually still use Gumtree , I remember Gumtree using it in year 2014

[@museonfilm8919]

Scammers, and those too tight to pay eBay fees!

[@Mercmad]

Hydrogen Sulphide was the first thing that came to mind when the citizens of Spital mentioned a 'eggy' smell. People have died ,suffocated from the effects of HS2. From Wiki.. Hydrogen sulfide is toxic to humans and most other animals by inhibiting cellular respiration in a manner similar to hydrogen cyanide. When it is inhaled or its salts are ingested in high amounts,[clarification needed] damage to organs occurs rapidly with symptoms ranging from breathing difficulties to convulsions and death. Despite this, the human body produces small amounts of this sulfide and its mineral salts, and uses it as a signalling molecule.

[@mogznwaz]

How many of these scumbags could be deported?

[@suminshizzles6951]

Considering their accents and lack of english i would say that all of them are fresh off of the boat. But even if they are caught they will only get a slap on the wrist, if at all. There is no justice in the UK justice system. There isn't.

[@benw3221]

You didn't watch more than 5 minutes of this, did you? Whereabouts in the world do you think David John Neal comes from?

[@TheTacticalHaggis]

For throwing away rubbish? Clown.

[@suminshizzles6951]

@@benw3221 I watched enough to see people gaining financially from fly tipping. I saw enough to hear accents like they came straight off of the boat. I saw enough to come to the conclusion that anybody caught doing envirnmental damage like that will get nothing but a slap on the wrist. This was later confimed in the clip. A person twice convicted of the same thing was given a suspended sentence. Thereby making sure that a third offense will occur in the future, as a suspended jail sentence is not a deterrent if you can get the judge to suspend it, yet again. Why is the ethnicity of perps committing crimes not recorded unlike most of the EU? So we do not scare the population of kippers in the UK with sweden like crime numbers. That is why. As it is most crimes are not even recorded. Called a coppr lately? How long that take to get done? DId one come? I successfully defended an assault by my landlord and one of his goons in my kitchen by spallering their blood all over my kitched windows. I am lucky i hold a purple belt in ju jistu and can defend myself. But i still called the cops. Did they come? Heck no. Do they come when people call them for burglaries? Heck no. Do people who work in shops when criminal gangs storm in and casually fill plastic bags full of stoen goods and then casually walk out? Heck. Why dont they call the coppers? Because they dont come and they wont do anything. Sure, Uk citizens and even people who lived here all their lives do these very same crimes. But, by a large these are foreign run criminal gangs that perpetrate these crimes and this show proved it. If some little left leaning, politically correct, LGBTXZY loving segment of the soceity thinks my views are rascist then they need to get their heads examined.

[@abulkashem1028]

Non cos all white

[@enemyofYTemployees]

The fact you need licenses just to throw away stuff to the dump is stupid and enables mess like this to happen.

[@stephenwilliamson1491]

The amount we pay for council tax and council charging crazy monry for dumping at’s the real issue

[@karlhal8165]

I live next to a forest and people started dumping Tyres and rumple it’s a disgrace.