Anger over flytipping at cemetery
RELATIVES visiting graves of loved ones in a city cemetery are being confronted by piles of dumped tyres.
A regular visitor estimated there were about 200 tyres, pallets and pieces of furniture strewn around. He said they had been there for weeks.
The city council, which owns the cemetery, says it will remove the flytipping.
HUNDREDS of tyres have been dumped in a cemetery just yards from gravesides.
The piles of illegally discarded old tyres are an eyesore and upsetting to relatives visiting graves.
Our pictures show mainly tyres, furniture and other refuse tipped onto land beside a roundabout in Lambhill Cemetery in the north of the city.
Glasgow City Council which owns the cemetery said it will remove the tyres.
One regular visitor to the cemetery said they have been there for weeks.
The man, who did not wish to be named, said he visits on a weekly basis and is disgusted by the dumping.
He said: “There looks to me to be about 200 tyres and pallets and pieces of furniture dumped.
“The gates are open day and night and anyone can drive in.
“I thinks it’s disgusting someone would do this. If I had seen it happening I would have taken the registration number and reported it to the police.”
He added that there is CCTV cameras at the entrance and hoped the council will check.
The driver has entered the cemetery at the the Maryhill Crematorium entrance and driven through, past many gravesides before reaching the spot where the tyres were dumped.
The eyesore dump is beside graves and can be seen by many people visiting the resting place of loved ones.
Tyres are not accepted at Glasgow’s commercial waste disposal centres and some firms offer pick up of tyres for disposal from garages and the motor trade.
Tyres are not accepted at the household recycling either so rather than pay for them to be recycled safely someone has dumped them in a quiet spot in a graveyard.
The council website states: “Householders with tyres should pay the disposal fee at the garage where they are buying new ones.”
The council said the tyres would be removed as soon as it is practical to do so and is looking at installing bollards to restrict access at certain points in the cemetery.
A spokesman for Glasgow City Council, said: “Unfortunately, people do sometimes target cemeteries which are, by their nature, quite open and accessible.
“Whoever did this knows exactly where they were dumping their waste – and exactly how distressing that could be for people visiting the graves of their loved ones.
“We are taking steps to try and make it more difficult to bring in or manoeuvre large vehicles, while maintaining an appropriate space for visitors and families.”