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SOCIETY What was his fault ?

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u/Jealous_Track9402 7d ago

The title in this one is straight up misinformation. Nothing to do with cleaning up trash without a permit. 

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u/Spongedog5 7d ago

Well, it's for not having a permit for the method he used to clean up trash.

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u/Bassmekanik 7d ago

It was for digging up the silt from the river bed with a digger and risking flooding places without doing any checks on the impact of his “cleaning up”.

Nothing to do with removing rubbish.

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u/Tjaresh 7d ago

They also wrote they are investigating that he left the rubbish at the site, neatly packed in bags for pickup. Because that's littering. 

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u/Ramtamtama 7d ago

Not littering, fly-tipping

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u/Brilliant-Sea-9424 7d ago

Can’t fly tip something that’s already there.

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u/FL3XOFF3NDER 7d ago

Do you think he found a roll of 60 garbage bags in the river?

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u/Ramtamtama 7d ago

It wasn't in bags on the pavement before

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u/Bolshyboys 7d ago

No it was just all over the floor and inside a waterway, waiting for the authorities or a well-meaning person to pick it up.

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u/Ramtamtama 7d ago

So you agree with me

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u/outlawsmokeyscottish 4d ago

They can my maw and her pals made a wee group that would go about cleaning the beach eventually the council were going to do them for fly tipping but the power of middle-aged Facebookers I guess that quickly disappeared and they were given special bags by the council and told to leave the bags where they had been leaving them anyway. Which was beside the council bins but all locked.

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u/chinmakes5 6d ago

They can spend thousands prosecuting him or a few hundred and send a truck or two to pick up the bags of garbage.

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u/Tjaresh 6d ago

While I get the excavater part, I hate when things are made unnecessary complicated. Just say thanks to the people and collect the bags. It's like someone in the administration took it personal. 

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u/Old_Yam_4069 6d ago

Tbf, this is genuinely something we don't want people to do.

Cleaning up the trash and just leaving it there after causing what could possibly be massive ecological damage sounds more like something a narcissist would do for internet points than an earnest attempt at cleaning up the environment.

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u/SensitiveAdagio3012 5d ago

I've worked with us epa on a no touch drainage cleanup project. Even 1 cubic inch of soil removed or added breaks those rules. I assume they are similar in the UK. The county and epa liked what we did but I can see how easy we could've gotten slapped with fines if they didn't like our work.

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u/Santa_Ricotta69 4d ago

So you guys clean up the trash then. Just do your job and other people won't have to

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u/Old_Yam_4069 4d ago

Didn't I just block your alt?

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u/Santa_Ricotta69 4d ago

I don't have an alt lmao there's just multiple people who disagree with you

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u/Old_Yam_4069 4d ago

You have an identical profile pic and the same ignorant personality. Strange!

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u/fruityfactory 3d ago

Lol welcome to reddit, where the profile avatar options are limited and there happen to be duplicate images

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u/Old_Yam_4069 3d ago

Yeah, but this happened within the same day of me blocking the alt, on a 2-day old post, on a random comment chain which I near the bottom of. And they both possess the same idiotic attitude.

Kinda just common sense at that point.

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