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howareya

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What should i do.

Recently there has been alot of dumping of rubbish around my area. The odd black bag or super valu bag. Never in the same place but along the same road.

Then only about two/three weeks ago someone dumped their lawnmower and washing machine outside the house myself and boyfriend are building.

This morning i went outside my current house and found a super valu bag of rubbish nearly on my door step. I actually taught i heard some one stop last night about 12 o clock and obviously thats what i heard. Anyhow I found a payslip inside the bag ad know who it is. Unsurprisingly enough the perpetrator only lives a mile from me.
I just want to know what the best thing to do is.

I will without any holding back go down to the persons house and knock on his door and hand him back the rubbish. No arguing but just the look of embarrasement would be good.

I want to know if the authorities would do anything if i phoned them.
 
The authorities would almost certainly impose a hefty fine.

A previous place I worked in was having trouble with the same type of thing. We found black bags one morning which had address details for somebody on it. As far as I can remember they were fined almost €1,000.
 
I don't think there's anything can be done if you've interferred with the rubbish. The best thing to do next time domestic rubbish is dumped is call your local council who can send a litter warden to photograph the dumping and can then examine the contents for proof of ownership - they can then issue a fine.
 
ring the garda station and ask them what you should do, drop in the payslip to them and forget it. It happened to my dad and he found an addressed envelope in the in a black sack of rubbish dumped over a ditch onto his land where cattle were grazing, he left it into the gardai and nothing happened except it stopped.I can only presume that the gardai spoke to the person in question and they a)stopped or b)found a different remote spot and were not so silly with envelopes.
 
Are you allowed to snoop through someone elses rubbish? I understand your situation but maybe you should look at all angles before letting loose in order to avoid legal problems.
 
"Illegal dumping

The litter laws have increased the powers of your local authority to combat the problem of illegal dumping of refuse and rubbish. If you see someone dumping illegally, you should report the matter to your local authority who will investigate and take any necessary enforcement action.
Alternatively you can report illegal dumping to a 24 hour lo-call telephone number 1850 365 121. Local authorities, the Environmental Protection Agency and an Garda Síochána will follow up on the information given as appropriate. Information that you give can be treated confidentially although you are encouraged to give your contact details as authorities may wish to follow- up with you in relation to the investigation of illegal dumping.
If your local authority finds material that is illegally dumped and establishes the identity of the owner of the material, that person will have a case to answer without necessarily having to be caught in the act."
 
It is quite clear cut when the payslip was found in the rubbish. Any local Authority or Garda worth their salt would have no hassle sorting this out!
Don't let the litter lout get away with it!
 
rkeane said:
Are you allowed to snoop through someone elses rubbish? I understand your situation but maybe you should look at all angles before letting loose in order to avoid legal problems.
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Snoop through peoples rubbish??? Its on my property and they dumped it there ilegally. I don't think that would be an issue
 
Have noticed more & more of this now as time goes by...which I expected now that people are getting 'pay-by-weight' bills from the council.

I recycle & compost yet my refuse charges are higher than when I binned everything.... so I'm not surprised that a few have taken the 'opportunity' to reduce their refuse charge by illegal dumping.

Now when the Cork County Council decide to increase their pay by weight charges whenever in the future it will add to the problem.

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howareya said:
Snoop through peoples rubbish??? Its on my property and they dumped it there ilegally. I don't think that would be an issue
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i would have thought this was true - sure you might not have been sure it was rubbish until you opened it. It seems like just another "technicality" that solicitor can use to get it thrown out if it went to court with the dumper objecting to the fine...
you could always post the payslip back to the issuer with a note telling them where it was found if you felt strongly. :eek: Personnally i wouldn't have the nerve to though.
 
I would have no problem what so ever actually bringing the rubbish back to the person who dumped it there (who's name is on the payslip).

I think its the lowest of the low. People paying a few hundred euro for refuse collection and then a minority not bothering at all. Its discusting and the countryside is being ruined by it.

taking into account that I have opened the bag and found the payslip which i took out of the bag. then i put the bag into MY rubbish bin (it can easily be taken out) Is it worth contacting the authorities at all.
 
howareya said:
I will without any holding back go down to the persons house and knock on his door and hand him back the rubbish. No arguing but just the look of embarrasement would be good.
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I think this sounds like a great idea. You would get the satisfaction of seeing the look on his face, and he would have to have some neck to ever dump on your property again :)
 
i know a litter warden for Fingal and they try to investigate every piece of illegal litter they find - they will always go through it and will impose hefty fines where possible - you should definitely report it - i wouldn't go to the neighbour as they may get stroppy at being caught out.
 
if i were you, i'd put this rubbish including the payslip back into a bag, leave it outside your door then ring your local county council and have them deal with it after that. there are serious fines for this type of outrageous behaviour. the person can hardly say at the court case that 'i don't recognise that bag, the rubbish bag i used was white!' can they? a former colleague of mine got prosecuted after the person she'd paid to take rubbish away had dumped her rubbish down a lane in clondalkin, she managed to explain this to the judge and was let off. if you go to the persons house they'll just find somewhere else to dump it and it will be someone else's problem. report them!
 
Absolutely agree! This is just ridiculous behaviour and is reflective of the bad side of this country. Basically a proportion of people behaving with no regard to society in general!
 
The EPA have launched a new campaign called ‘Dump the Dumpers’ where the public can report illegal dumping via a 24 hour lo-call telephone number 1850 365 121. Local authorities, the gardaí and the EPA will follow up on the information provided by the public, as appropriate.
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Before this campaign, your course of action would have been to contact the Environment section of your LA but TBH the only authority that I have come across who seem to actively work on illegal dumping are Kerry County Council who AFAIK even have insepctors out after hours and weekends investigating such incidents.
 
We had similar problems over the years, which became progressively worse with the bin charges. Phoned the local litter warden who , on every occasion, pursued the perpetrator and arranged for removal of waste. Its really worth your while at least flagging the problem with them, for future reference. They can only do a good job with thew help of vigilant residents.
 
SNB said:
We had similar problems over the years, which became progressively worse with the bin charges. Phoned the local litter warden who , on every occasion, pursued the perpetrator and arranged for removal of waste. Its really worth your while at least flagging the problem with them, for future reference. They can only do a good job with thew help of vigilant residents.
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I second that. I have reported littering to the county council litter warden and they pursued every case. Certainly Dun Laoghaire Rathdown CoCo take it seriously. You should definitely contact the county council. People like that are ruining our countryside and towns and they should absolutely be pursued for the cost of disposing of their waste and fined. With regard to the payslip, if the case went to court with you as a witness, your evidence that you found it in the bag might be accepted. Certainly an eyewitness report of dumping from a car is accepted as evidence in court. They might ask you if you would be prepared to appear as a witness in court if it came to that. It might never come to that though and that shouldn't stop you reporting it in the first instance.

Good luck and I hope these people learn their lesson.
 
Dump it where you can is the motto.

I pay Bin charge evry 2 weeks and some one has left a black bag full out site my wall. I even placed it beside the bin but the left it. I refuse to put it in my bin and pay for it.

It happens a lot around where i live as the renters (non Irish) feel its OK to leave bags of rubbish where they like.

The more "responsible ones" leave them beside public litter bins.

If I move this bag I will probably be caught and fined

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Report that bag of rubbish left beside your bin to the litter warden ! Just because it is in proximity to a bin does not make it not litter. The warden will then check it out & have it removed. If people don't avail of the services of the litter wardens, the gov will begin to see them as incapable and/or pointless & cut spending on them.
 
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