Yorkshire Post

EVERY MONDAY

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Who knows what he might have done with them.

The problem is rubbish is a black hole which no one knows what to do with. We rang the police, but they weren’t interested in collecting the offending case. In the end, we wrapped it in several carrier bags and threw it in the bin. We felt bad, but we didn’t know what else to do.

If it’s hard to report small items such as this, it’s nigh on impossible to tackle bags of rubbish, abandoned furniture and so on. Ask any farmer or landowner about the frustratin­g process of getting rid of debris left illegally on their land, or the fringes of it. On private land, the onus is usually on the person who owns it to take it to the tip. Unless you’ve dealt with it, you have no idea how time-consuming and costly this can be.

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