Councils pay for a mess of their own making
SIR – The costs of disposing of furniture and builders’ waste are extortionate. It is therefore no wonder that fly-tipping is out of control (report, March 3).
It would actually save money if the council took things for nothing, since they are spending far more clearing up the mess.
Michael Joseph Lawford, Essex
SIR – Councils such as Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire should accept part of the responsibility for the increase in fly-tipping.
Many people just over the border from Bassetlaw, in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, are no longer allowed to use the recycling centre there, despite it being their nearest facility. Nottinghamshire was not prepared to subsidise other councils’ waste management.
If other counties take the same line, the council tax payer will lose out, as no doubt fly-tipping will increase further.
Adrian Waller Woodsetts, South Yorkshire
SIR – My next-door neighbour has no car, so he hired a small van and took his garden waste to the tip. He was denied access as the tip does not permit vans.
I therefore put the waste on my small trailer and took it to the tip. I was denied access because my trailer had a brake. There is no hope.
Clive Allen Rugby, Warwickshire