Rubbish

Fly-tipped rubbish and waste is seen beside a road in Colnbrook, near Heathrow, west of London on May 11 2020.

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Rubbish piled up on Beach Road in Sparkhill Birmingham

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Dramatic pictures posted on Facebook posted by Watery Lane resident Elaine Hutchings show the scale of the fly tipping.

'Beyond belief': Outrage over 50ft long fly-tipped waste pile

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Deveca Rose left her two sets of twins Kyson and Bryson, aged four, and Leyton and Logan, aged three, alone in their locked terraced home in Sutton, south-west London in December 2021.

Mum jailed over deaths of her sons

Serife Mehmet, 30, said she has often wished to move away from the area due to the extent of the rubbish

Revolting rubbish and nightmare potholes are making my car filthy

The huge mountain of rubbish has built up at a property in Dalkeith Street

Disgusting mountain of rubbish attracting rats and plaguing street

Home s on Bentworth Road in Hammersmith were evacuated after "radioactive" waste was found while clearing out a home.

Homes evacuated after 'radioactive' waste found inside bin bags

Before-and-after pictures show how a house of horrors which was turned into a makeshift dump has finally been cleared of rubbish after more than a year.

Makeshift tip FINALLY cleared as nightmare neighbour evicted

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Nightmare tenant with rubbish dump in front garden gets EVICTED

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Next door has a rubbish dump in the garden...it's making our kids sick

Video grab from heartbreaking footage showing 'waterfalls' of 3,000 bits of rubbish including drinks cans and Santa hats left by people on Mount Snowdon.

'Waterfall' of rubbish cascades down Mt Snowdon in heartbreaking video

Tourists have been slammed for trashing a picturesque beach in Anglesey known for its tranquillity and panoramic views. (Photo: PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Tourists trash popular UK beach with 'soiled toilet paper' and litter

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Bilk's Sol Abraham

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Clean Up Britain founder John Read wants more to be done about motorway litter

Rubbish dumped on motorway...what do we pay our council tax for?
Video shows the shocking state of a motorway verge strewn with rubbish - as campaigners blast the national roads agency for not doing enough to combat litter despite a ‘£5.4 billion annual handout from taxpayers’.
Lucinda Herbert

Nino Gugliemi, 82, who has run a female hair salon on Wilmslow Road in Manchester for 60 years backs onto the alley ways of where students live and have dumped rubbish after moving out for the summer.

Watch: Fly-tipping students have turned street into a 'dumping ground'

Gas cannister exploded after being incorrectly thrown out with household rubbish

Watch: Gas cannister explodes and is sent flying at binman

Residents say the village of Featherstone is the 'grimmest' place in the UK and is surrounded by three prisons.

'We live in UK's grimmest village... it's worse than prison'

The house was in a very poor state (Photo: RSPCA/Supplied)

Dead cats found in squalid house 'full of rubbish and faeces'

Mike Barton is one of the residents of a Bristol street where rubbish must be seperated into 13 different bags

Life on the street where you must separate rubbish 13 times each week

Natalie Hixon was fined more than £1,000 after letting dog poo and rubbish pile up in her garden in Folkestone in Kent. Picture: SWNS

Dog poo and rubbish in garden sees woman hit with £1,000 fine

The RSPCA rescued the injured mother cat & her kittens from an A1079 layby last month.

Mystery surrounds injured cat & kittens found in rubbish-strewn layby

The young police officer at the centre of what has become known as the 'breadgate' incident. The unidentified officer threw his bread crusts on the floor in an Oxfordshire town but was confronted by angry resident Jamie Cossey, who filmed the interaction he had with him. Photo by Twitter.

TikTok police officer ‘breadgate’ video - response to cop littering

Ellis Anthony Gibbs dropping litter out of his car window in a car park in Hull. The teenager was fined £250.

Teenager fined £250 after throwing McDonald’s bag out of car window

Tobiasz Stanford spent seven months collecting discarded vapes - and used their batteries to power an e-scooter (Tobiasz Stanford/SWNS)

Meet the man using 80 discarded vape batteries to power his e-scooter

So-called "eco-friendly" paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals and may not be better for the environment than plastic versions, researchers have warned (Photo: Ben Birchall/PA Wire)

Chemicals mean paper straws 'not the safest' alternative to plastic
Researchers have advised that popular paper straws may not be the most 'eco-friendly' alternative to plastic
Amber Allott

Hundreds of people are tuning in to a live-stream to watch what people fly tip in a central London skip (Photo: SWNS)

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Councils in England recorded more than 1 million fly-tipping incidents last year.

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Visitors slam ‘dirty’ UK beach full of rubbish and sewage as ‘abysmal’

Illegal fly tipping currently has a maximum penalty of five years in jail and an unlimited fine (Photo: Getty Images)

Labour pledge ‘clean-up squads’ to crackdown on fly-tipping

You may see a change to when your rubbish is collected over the Platinum Jubilee bank holiday weekend.

Bin collection times in your council area for Platinum Jubilee week

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