‘People will just dump anything’

NEARLY 1,500 incidents of fly-tipping occurred in Dundee in 2020 – but not a single person has been prosecuted.

CHERYL MCGUIRE:

“Try making recycling/dumping items accessible and it would reduce the need to do this. It’s never right. But the reduced hours at the skips because of Covid is just crazy. They are rarely open.”

SANDRA STRACHAN:

“It’s the same every week at the flats across from me and over Christmas it was even worse. Nothing gets put in the cardboard bin and people just dump anything and everything.”

PATRICIA KERRIGAN:

“The Eurobins are hopeless, get us back to the wheelie bins. People think they are entitled to dump a whole household of furniture at them. The council has no option but to have it all removed but other people are having to pay £25 to have up to six items uplifted.”

ANDY MCCOLL:

“It doesn’t matter where you go in the world, the one thing that is always noticed and remembered is the cleanliness of the surroundings and if Dundee wants visitors to spread the word then it needs to get the basics right.”

RASMUS JOHANNES YOUNG:

“Maybe if the council didn’t charge people for the uplift of unreusable furniture, and maybe if you didn’t need a permit to use the dumps, there would be less fly-tipping.”

KEDAR KHADKA:

“Not everyone has a car/van to take items to a recycling centre, and the council never takes them away for free.”

TAMMY-MARIE ROBINSON:

“Fly-tippers absolutely enrage me – we had someone in our street doing it for ages.”