Man fined £1,000 for dumping 5 bin bags on country lane...and his excuse is laughable

He claimed he had been to the Slough and Langley Household Recycling Centres (HRC), where he could leave the bags for free. However, when he arrived at 8pm it was closed.

Instead of coming back at a later date, he chose to dump them by the side of the road in Iver.

Officers from Buckinghamshire Council managed to track down the perpetrator by going through the waste and linking his name and address through its contents. The man received a fixed penalty notice of £1,000.

It comes just weeks after another brazen fly-tipper was caught dumping rubbish on a hidden camera set up by officers. Chrystian Junio Assis Riberio, 23, admitted illegally dumping hazardous waste on a country lane in Buckinghamshire. Magistrates fined Riberio £2,000 and ordered him to pay clean-up and prosecution costs of £400.

Buckinghamshire Council's deputy cabinet member for climate change and environment Jilly Jordan said: "Fly-tipping is a serious criminal act that causes chronic harm to our environment and communities. Buckinghamshire Council has a firm position on fly-tipping - it is against the law, not acceptable, and offenders will face zero-tolerance consequences.

"This fly-tipper was caught on CCTV, witnessed by a member of the public for fly-tipping and evidence found at the scene also helped identify the offender. This case serves as a reminder that Buckinghamshire Council will upturn every stone seeking to detect and apprehend dumping offenders."

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Buckinghamshire Council leader Martin Tett he would like to see the number of fines handed out for the offence rise significantly in the coming years.

He said back in May: "Fly-tipping has been a passion of mine going back something like 12, 13 years. It really aggravates our residents.

"People hate seeing it on the side of the road. It can be a sofa, an old fridge, it can be all sorts of things.

"There is no excuse for that behaviour. There is absolutely no excuse."

It comes after Conservative MSP failed in a bid earlier this year to get fines for fly-tipping increased to £5,000. Edward Mountain, who owns a farm in the Moray area, insisted the illegal dumping of such items was a “blight that covers Scotland”.

Urging Holyrood to back an increase to fines for fly-tipping, Mountain said: “Like most farmers across Scotland, and land owners across Scotland, we have suffered from people throwing stuff on to the farm.

"I think we ought to consider carefully what our priorities are and whether we think it is right that people go round the countryside causing a blight on Scotland, which is not making it attractive for tourists to come here."

However, MSPs rejected his amendment by 47 votes to 69, with the vote coming after climate action minister Gillian Martin had argued a £5,000 fine would "not be a proportionate amount" for less serious cases of fly-tipping,