Letter: The big waste in scrapping Shropshire’s amenity skips
Thursday 28th April 2011, 6:00AM BST.
Letter: With 1,000 cases of fly-tipping costing the council £195,000 a year to clear up (Star, April 16), the folly of scrapping the amenity skip sites in Shropshire is now clear.
Not only are they having to clear up the rubbish that people previously put into skips, but extra enforcement staff are having to be employed to try and stop the fly-tipping.
Shropshire Council should reinstate the skip services that cost £48,000 per year and save the taxpayers nearly £150,000, besides keeping the places clear of rubbish and saving two extra officials’ wages.
Furthermore, half the material put into the skips was re-cycled, now it is dumped or burned. Madness.
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People should be fined more to cover the cost of clearing up their mess.
The answer is simple. Don’t do it, go to the tip like i do.
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