• East London. A huge pile of earth, :opped with
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tin cans, rotting wood and roken supermarket trolleys, blocks a iuiet side street.
Minutes away, a busy dual carriageway as hundreds of metres of rubble stacked ip on both verges. Most of it has been :here for years, covered in a carpet of meeds, but some boulders, probably lumped the previous night, have fallen on he road itself.
This is the dirty work of highly orgafised flytippers, determined to turn a ....ondon borough into the trash heap of the mpital. Greenwich — famous for its kservatory and maritime museum — is spending £100,000 a year just to contain he problem.
The get-rich-quick cowboys, some runling brand-new trucks, offer cut-throat -ates to clear nearby City and Dockland :onstruction sites, and swoop on areas ike Greenwich, just through the Blackwall runnel. To avoid paying for legal dumps, hey tip anywhere they can — on verges, )arks or residential streets.
Mostly, they steal in at 3am in unli:enced, unregistered trucks. At other imes, say witnesses, they flaunt Eand z-registration vehicles, tipping in daylight md in public view.