{"id":22898,"date":"2019-02-19T11:19:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T11:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22898"},"modified":"2019-02-19T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T12:20:24","slug":"households-could-be-fined-up-to-400-over-rubbish-disposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/households-could-be-fined-up-to-400-over-rubbish-disposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Households could be fined up to \u00a3400 over rubbish disposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Households could be fined up to \u00a3400 if their waste is fly-tipped &#8211; even if they don&#8217;t do it themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh Assembly are expected to approve proposals to make it easier for local councils to penalize those who dump waste illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Some illegal fly-tipping occurs when people allow unofficial waste disposers to take away rubbish from their home in good faith.<\/p>\n<p>This photograph of an abandoned mattress was sent to CJS by Rubicon Dance, a community dance centre in Adamsdown that says fly-tipping is a daily issue for them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22919 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-4.png 544w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-4-111x150.png 111w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-4-91x122.png 91w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-4-292x394.png 292w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-4-67x90.png 67w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A change of the current rules could hold those residents accountable for what happens to their waste afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Current council rule fine only those who are caught fly-tipping themselves.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report by the Welsh Government found that more than 60% of fly-tipping incidents stemmed from domestic properties.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2017 and 2018, fly-tipping cost the Welsh taxpayer \u00a32m. More than 35, 000 incidents of fly-tipping were reported in the last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is fly-tipping a problem where you live? Send us pictures of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/flytipping?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#flytipping<\/a> in your area using the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/picsonthefly?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#picsonthefly<\/a>. This was in  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Adamsdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Adamsdown<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cardiff?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cardiff<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/suOKLjn3UR\">pic.twitter.com\/suOKLjn3UR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cardiff Broadcast (@BroadcastCJS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BroadcastCJS\/status\/1097799201495441409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Keep Wales Tidy say: &#8220;People are aware of the fly-tipping problem and are reporting it, and there is a lot of community engagement from people who want to stamp it out&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Households could be fined up to \u00a3400 if their waste is fly-tipped &#8211; even if they don&#8217;t do it themselves. The Welsh Assembly are expected to approve proposals to make it easier for local councils to penalize those who dump waste illegally. Some illegal fly-tipping occurs when people allow unofficial waste disposers to take away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22898"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22922,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22898\/revisions\/22922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}