{"id":28183,"date":"2019-01-23T10:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T10:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28183"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T10:54:14","slug":"man-caught-fly-tipping-and-fined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/23\/man-caught-fly-tipping-and-fined\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Caught Fly-Tipping and Fined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A fly-tipper was caught dumping a pile of used nappies, food and rubbish in a West Bromwich street before fleeing the scene on CCTV footage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The man who has not been named was seen pulling up in a silver car on Barlow Drive, West Bromwich, and throwing bags onto a grass verge on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n<p>The dumped bags contained nappies, food, bottles and other household rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>Sandwell Council\u2019s Environmental Protection Team racked down the man from his vehicle registration and issued him with a \u00a3400 fixed penalty notice.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Elaine Costigan, cabinet member for public health and protection, said: \u201cThis was a disgraceful incident of fly-tipping that was caught on camera in broad daylight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re grateful to the individual who reported this incident and helpfully uploaded the video footage to our MySandwell portal \u2013 where people can report fly-tipping and provide any evidence they have on who may be responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery penny that we have to spend cleaning up after people who dump rubbish could be spent on other services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no excuse for it \u2013 the tip is open every day, we have weekly bin collections in Sandwell and we provide an excellent bulky waste collection service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve now issued 115 \u00a3400 fines for fly-tipping in Sandwell over the past 18 months or so. We won\u2019t tolerate this and if we catch you, expect a big fine in the post.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fly-tipper was caught dumping a pile of used nappies, food and rubbish in a West Bromwich street before fleeing the scene on CCTV footage. The man who has not been named was seen pulling up in a silver car on Barlow Drive, West Bromwich, and throwing bags onto a grass verge on Boxing Day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[909,1633,1332],"class_list":["post-28183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-fly-tipping","tag-sandwell-council","tag-west-bromwich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}