Misuse of City Dumps
At last! as we read in the July "Echo", our council intends
restricting civic amenity dumps to their intended and only legal
purpose.
The dumps are meant to receive only household waste. The law states
this clearly, as do the public notices.
Yet day after day our council has been allowing ‘cowboys’ to
jettison non-household rubbish on the sites, so long as the vans were
not lorry size and carry no commercial signs.
I live near the Old Dalkeith Road site. For almost five years I’ve
watched the rules being flouted. Honest citizens are subsidising ‘fly’
firms which should be paying a fee to get rid of their junk.
My estimate is that up to 100 vans dump illegally each day. There was
similar law-breaking at the other Edinburgh sites.
I’ve complained to the Director of the department concerned, to the
Chief Executive and to various Councillors including Councillor Fallon
(who has overall responsibility for waste disposal).
I’ve tried to interest the ombudsman and the local authority
auditors. All this has been without result.
Now some remedial action has been proposed. But what rules have been
enforced? Will I get a letter from our council and the rest admitting I
was right?
Jim Brunton, Inch
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