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birth of a very unsavoury creature — the fly-tipper. Gangland crooks have got such a grip on fly-tipping operations that councils are refusing to send out their staff after them without police protection.
The fly-boys work in contingents with lookouts on CB radios. Tipper drivers can make up to 21,500 a week. That kind of money motivates and inspires the illegal dumping of rubble in parks, open areas and side streets as close as possible to central London sites.
The problem has become the unacceptable face of the London business boom. The Association of London Authorities (ALA) is appalled by these crimes and wants tipper owners and drivers to be prosecuted and a clause in public sector building and demolition contracts requiring firms to ensure rubble is disposed of properly. The ALA also wants the building trade's professional bodies to black sub-contractors prosecuted for fly-tipping.