Rural Illegal Rubbish Dumping

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outdoorsnz

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#298567 28-Jun-2022 16:36

Yesterday I was walking dogs on a rural gravel road and discovered someones rubbish pile!

This really gets my blood boiling. Useless lazy sh*ts!!#@$@#%$

But a couple of things struck me as odd. There are quite a few discarded council rubbish bags with the contents all over the place. And there is a bank statement sitting right on top. Which is of a person nearby - googling this name brings up someone with driving / assault charges paper article. This strikes me as odd to be left in the open on display.

I would suspect someone has been picking up rubbish bags and going through looking for details on people that could be used for gain / fraud etc. As normally rubbish bags are fly tossed.

And much further down the road, someone had discarded wine bottles / whiskey / beer bottles in ditch over a km or so! Many!

Rang council, but nothing happens. Getting really common now.

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#2935488 28-Jun-2022 16:51

I know it's a serious issue, and littering really pees me off, but I couldn't help think of this reading the OP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM

outdoorsnz

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#2935501 28-Jun-2022 17:08

shk292:

I know it's a serious issue, and littering really pees me off, but I couldn't help think of this reading the OP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM

Agree that is a great song! I even own the CD. At some point I will play that album to work out the relevance ;-)

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#2935504 28-Jun-2022 17:11

Ring your local council and tell them there is a letter on top with the persons details, they might be more interested then as they can pin it on someone.

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#2935509 28-Jun-2022 17:19

outdoorsnz:

But a couple of things struck me as odd. There are quite a few discarded council rubbish bags with the contents all over the place. And there is a bank statement sitting right on top. Which is of a person nearby - googling this name brings up someone with driving / assault charges paper article. This strikes me as odd to be left in the open on display.

If this person is the culprit, then "left in the open on display" doesn't sound odd at all - the person doesn't sound too smart.

outdoorsnz:

I would suspect someone has been picking up rubbish bags and going through looking for details on people that could be used for gain / fraud etc. As normally rubbish bags are fly tossed.

It's a possibility but then it would likely be more than one person's rubbish unless very targeted.

Nah, I think it's the first option.

outdoorsnz

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#2935512 28-Jun-2022 17:27

Daynger:

Ring your local council and tell them there is a letter on top with the persons details, they might be more interested then as they can pin it on someone.

Rang and emailed Otago Regional Council, which were very helpful. They would investigate if in water way, otherwise will pass on to DCC. Someone told me they rang it in over a month ago.

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#2935513 28-Jun-2022 17:32

freitasm:

If this person is the culprit, then "left in the open on display" doesn't sound odd at all - the person doesn't sound too smart.

It's a possibility but then it would likely be more than one person's rubbish unless very targeted.

Nah, I think it's the first option.

You might be right. Quite possibly animals emptied the bags, but the black bags seemed to be in a row neatly aligned up and rubbish in front.

tweake

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#2935514 28-Jun-2022 17:35

not uncommon for it to be from landlords.

tenant has done a runner, landlord cleans up and dumps it down the road. trail leads to the old tenant so landlord is usually in the clear.

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#2935515 28-Jun-2022 17:39

tweake:

not uncommon for it to be from landlords.

tenant has done a runner, landlord cleans up and dumps it down the road. trail leads to the old tenant so landlord is usually in the clear.

What evidence do you have for this?

Not uncommon?

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#2935516 28-Jun-2022 17:44

blackjack17:

tweake:

not uncommon for it to be from landlords.

tenant has done a runner, landlord cleans up and dumps it down the road. trail leads to the old tenant so landlord is usually in the clear.

What evidence do you have for this?

Not uncommon?

not much, its more noticeable in the rural areas, especially when you know the landlords and their pile of crap house.

a few hit the head lines years ago. there was one where someone saw them, but its was actually the cleaners dumping it.

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#2935517 28-Jun-2022 17:45

Just down the road from where we used to live in Wellington was a popular dumping spot. The council would send someone to clean up when it was reported but it took some time to organise. The rubbish usually had enough hazardous stuff like old syringes to require carefulness.

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#2935579 28-Jun-2022 18:43

There are quite a few discarded council rubbish bags with the contents all over the place. And there is a bank statement sitting right on top. Which is of a person nearby

I've seen some people put rubbish bags 20+ meters down the road from their own place. I don't know why. Maybe appearances. Maybe they don't want to clean up after animals have been into it. So, they put it at a distance and leave the rubbish guys to clean up after the wildlife? The bag looks shredded.

- googling this name brings up someone with driving / assault charges paper article.

Cup of tea might be off then.

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#2935640 28-Jun-2022 19:17

We live on a rural road, not far from a township, and have rubbish discarded onto the roadside outside our property on almost a daily basis. Generally not full rubbish bags thankfully, but a steady supply of McDonalds and other take-away packaging, and general items that can be thrown out the window of a moving car. It's very annoying.

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#2935800 29-Jun-2022 09:54

Whilst not at all approving of such things, it has to be said that - at least in the rural world - councils do not really help. We lived about 3 minutes by car outside Martinborough and the council would not collect bins or recycling from our address.

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#2935819 29-Jun-2022 10:49

Geektastic:

Whilst not at all approving of such things, it has to be said that - at least in the rural world - councils do not really help. We lived about 3 minutes by car outside Martinborough and the council would not collect bins or recycling from our address.

Exacerbated by the ever-increasing cost of using council landfills and private rubbish collection. I imagine illegal dumping must be quite tempting when money is tight.

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#2935826 29-Jun-2022 11:14

Geektastic:
Whilst not at all approving of such things, it has to be said that - at least in the rural world - councils do not really help. We lived about 3 minutes by car outside Martinborough and the council would not collect bins or recycling from our address.

3 minutes gets you a long way out of Martinborough, how many bins within 100m would there be?

When we stayed in Italy there was no individual collection but there were large bins around town that you could dump your rubbish into.

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