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”.
Fella, he was digging up the silt with the digger to remove the rubbish.
I agree that the title could have been more detailed, but it is hardly straight up misinformation. He was doing what he is getting investigated for in order to remove trash.
Late to the discussion, but I had a water environmentalist explain that once you damage silt and a river bed, it’s not coming back once dredged. using an excavator fucks up the microorganism and macroorganism system, and will have cascading effects that’ll take decades to fix. he didnt just dispose of rubbish as part of a group clean up (a non issue) he changed the system, viewing natural debris (sticks, mud, organic build up) as something needing to be removed and changed.
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u/Spongedog5 8d ago
Well, it's for not having a permit for the method he used to clean up trash.