From white goods to ‘driver Tizer’: volunteers pick up slack in England’s fly-tipping crisis
From white goods to ‘driver Tizer’: volunteers pick up slack in England’s fly-tipping crisis
From white goods to ‘driver Tizer’: volunteers pick up slack in England’s fly-tipping crisis
Litter picking groups struggle to stem tide of rubbish after reported incidents rose 10% in last year
Last Wednesday, in a layby outside Brackley, Northamptonshire, Trish Savill and her band of self-styled Wombles proudly took photos of their morning’s work: 28 bags stacked neatly against the verge.
It had taken them an hour, but they had barely made a dent in the sprawl of unrecognisable, rotting refuse already working its way into the soil, mixed with dumped white goods and some more dubious finds.
One bag contained 12 empty shoe boxes, the likely aftermath of a theft. Another contained dozens of bottles of what Savill called “driver Tizer – as we affectionately call piss in a bottle”.