Official: Surbiton is a dump

1,700 used tyres fly-tipped at the Hogsmill Open Space.

Kingston council representative Rob Dickson, Head of Environment and Sustainability said that, "The number of tyres involved means that it can only have been the work of a 'professional' company using artic-sized vehicles."

The clean up process took nearly two weeks and is estimated to have cost the council over £4,000.

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If your waste centre is anything like ours in Poole or Bournemouth I can tell you why you are getting more fly tipping.

We must produce at least one form of ID either D/Licence or Passport plus evidence of our address with a current utility bill before we are allowed in.

Many folks forget one or the other and with a full car or van of waste simply give up and drive to a secluded spot and dump it.

What has a jam producer got to do with it?

I think the anonymous poster was making a pun referring to the old Yellow Pages advert,
'Fly tipping by JR Hartley'

Incidentally, I seem to remember the dump has special skips for phone directories when they're being replaced. I guess they're too big or something for the usual paper recycling process.

Yellow Pages?

Why cant YPs be recycled?

I don't know... why can't YP's be recyled...

My dog has no nose.
How does he smell?
Awful!

My name? J. R. Hartley.

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