Flytipping in Gosport on the decrease
FLYTIPPING in Gosport has reduced by a third despite the council scrapping free amenity skips last year.
Gosport Borough Council reported that the number of flytipping incidents has reduced from 126 incidents to 86 in the past year.
Last year the council took out a new contract with a Spanish firm for bin collections, which includes collecting on bank holidays.
The leader of the council, Cllr Mark Hook, says he feels this has had a positive impact on the borough.
Cllr Hook said: ‘Our contractors are working well so I am pleased to report fly tipping has reduced by over 30 per cent and there has been a marked reduction in the contamination of recycling.’
‘It was our first year without free amenity skips.
‘Part of that is because people work on bank holidays.
‘Before it always used to be confusing what day your collection would take place over bank holidays.
‘Now, we put it out on the same day. There’s no confusion as to when bins are going out.’
The firm Urbaser now collect Gosport’s household, garden and clinical waste and empties recycling banks.
It also cleans streets, public toilets and some of the town’s sports pavilions.
Cllr Hook added that the council has worked with Hampshire County Council to open up the access to the household waste centre, located in Rowner, which used to get extremely busy.
‘Before you had to queue out onto Grange Road to get into the tip,’ he added.
‘With the new arrangements in, more areas are available for tipping and people are using the tip more.
‘I think people have been acting responsibly. The tip has made a great difference.
‘There is no need for people to fly tip.
‘With the new tip and the arrangements for collecting rubbish there is no need for it.
‘It shows that by working with Hampshire county council that we can find solutions to some of these problems.
‘We can’t always stop people from breaking the law but we can make it as easy as possible for people to dispose of their rubbish.’
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liverpoolboy
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 07:21 PMA lot of rubbish,said on here .
dave3974
Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 04:34 PMperhaps it is to cold at the moment to tip
rickey
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 02:14 PMLets face it Clr Hook wants us to believe this in order to justify taking away the free skips. This is just a PR statement for the Gosport Conservative party.
richardgowen2002@yahoo.co.uk
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 11:49 AMI believe the council does a good job considering it is us as a community that lets irresponsible people get away with discarding litter. From large rubbish to cigarette ends, it litters the beach, gets thrown in hedge rows and dropped on our paths and streets. If anyone is interested in joining a litter picking group, there are three in the area, Lee On Solent, Brockhurst and Alverstoke. Go to litteraction.org.uk put in your post code and join up - make a difference clean up our area, after all, outside our front door is just an extension of our gardens.
The Jazz Funkster
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 11:39 AMAnyone looked into the flytipping that comes out of Cllr Hook mouth?
veiwsmatter
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 11:00 PMI disagree if fact I hardly see any fly tipping happening or where it has happend the streets do look cleaner, although some people do need to learn to use bins for chips packets and things. Over all very impressed I have to say.
SpecialUK
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 10:28 PMAgree with the litter everywhere CouncilWatcher, I was driving to work this morning thinking look at the state of Gosport and going into Fareham! Perhaps you should getting those doing community service doing more of the littering picking for starters?
CouncilWatcher
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 04:18 PMMark Hook is living in cloud cuckoo land. Just because less flytipping has been reported to his council doesn't mean less flytipping is taking place. You only have to look around Gosport to see there's litter and rubbish everywhere. Hardly a rear access road hasn't got some rubbish dumped in it. Commercial flytipping may be down but wherever I walk my dog I see domestic rubbish inc. old tvs, computers and household waste etc. dumped on footpaths, car parks, open ground and the rear access roads.
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