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Warrant swats flytippers
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AN ENVIRONMENTAL officer at Carmarthenshire Council is to brief neighbouring councils on how he issued a warrant to impound a truck involved in illegal fiylipping last week.
Paul Morris explains: "1 intend to show other officers the warrant applications which will give them the confidence to use the powers they gained in April when responsibility for enforcement was transferred to local government from the Environment Agency. They will see that they have another tool in their armoury".
Morris adds that this is the first use of impounding powers by any local authority in Wales. The seizure followed a complaint from a Dafen businessman last week that rubble and other waste materials had been dumped in his private car park.
CCTV footage showed the truck involved which was traced to a nearby traveller's site. The travellers denied knowing who owned the vehicle. Morris then contacted
a magistrate for a warrant to impound the truck.
"We are still trying to locate the vehicle's owner," he says. "If we can't find them then we will sell the vehicle to cover the cost of cleaning up the waste. We will nol tolerate incidents such as these and will not hesitate to use these powers again in the future." However, Steve Lorey, MD of Swansea-based All Skips, maintains that flytipping is being encouraged by a shortage of landfill sites. Last May Lorey led a 40-strong vehicle protest in Swansea to complain about the closure of sites and a failure to extend a local site to cope with commercial waste.