GET TOUGH WITH FLY-TIPPERS
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II Your article last week on fly-tipping focussed our atten
tion once again on a problem that is as old as the hills. Nothing is going to change until somebody somewhere starts getting tough, for real.
You suggest that hauliers should be forced to signwrite their names and addresses on the side of their trucks by law, like PSV operators. Good idea, but the dodgy East End flytipper in a nicked truck is not going to print the correct information on the side of his cab door. Even if he did, who would be able to read it on a gloomy night in the middle of nowhere, disguised under three months of unwashed grime?
You also suggest making building contractors legally responsible for the proper disposal of the rubble they generate. Another good idea, but anyone who has followed the construction industry's tortured attempts to bring in an industry-wide guarantee scheme will know just how unresponsive the country's builders can be when someone suggests they shoulder more responsibility.
We need more night-time lorry checks in affected areas, more adequately sized and sensibly-located land-fill sites and far tougher penalities for fly-tippers who are caught. Sidney Kingsley Grays, Essex.