Help keep St Albans City and District clean and tidy by letting us know if you have seen anyone fly-tipping in your area.
Help keep St Albans City and District clean and tidy by letting us know if you have seen anyone fly-tipping in your area.
Fly-tipping is the dumping of waste on land illegally. It is a criminal activity that can pollute the environment and may be a risk to human health. It can also harm wildlife and farm animals.
Only last week, St Albans City and District Council’s waste management contractors, Enterprise, were forced to clear up piles of leaflets strewn along the Harpenden Road next to Woollam playing fields.
Councillor Daniel Chichester-Miles, Portfolio Holder for Environment said: “The waste management teams at the Council and at Enterprise are to be congratulated for arranging for the leaflets to be cleared up soon after they were spotted on the roadside – however, it is a disgrace that this should be necessary.
“Fly-tipping is not only an illegal activity which damages the environment and creates an eyesore for local residents, but a selfish one, which passes on a direct cost to you and I – the local tax payer. If anyone saw the fly-tipping take place or has any information about the incident, please call the Council’s fly-tipping hotline number on 0845 125 8000.”
The Council treats fly-tipping seriously and will prosecute anyone caught fly-tipping waste.
If you see someone in the act of fly-tipping or you discover fly-tipped waste, please contact the Council on our hotline number 0845 125 8000 or by email at clientservices@stalbans.gov.uk . To assist with our investigations, it would be helpful if you could record as much information as possible about the fly-tipping, including the location, amount and type of waste, the number of people involved in the incident, a description of what they look like, and, if a vehicle is being used its make, colour and registration number.
Do not touch the waste as it may contain syringes, broken glass, asbestos, toxic chemicals and other hazardous substances.
More information on fly-tipping is available on the Council's website.
Member contact:
Councillor Daniel Chichester-Miles, Portfolio Holder for Environment for St Albans City and District Council
Tel: 01727 819281
Contact for the press:
Amanda Wilkinson,
Media and Internal Communications Officer
St Albans City and District Council
Tel: 01727 819317
E-mail: amanda.wilkinson@stalbans.gov.uk
www.stalbans.gov.uk
Picture caption:
Harpenden Road after the leaflets were cleared.