- The CCTV footage was recorded on Plume Street in Aston, Birmingham.
A brazen tipper was caught on CCTV dumping “huge felled trees” on a city street just meters from a recycling centre.
Footage shows the tipper disposing of tonnes of branches and logs on Plume Street in Aston, Birmingham.
Security cameras from storage facilities company JH Kemp Ltd captured the skip in action at around 7.45pm on Saturday.
The 1.15-minute video shows the driver stopping on the road outside the closed industrial units.
He then lifts the back of the truck and moves forward to allow tons of branches and vegetation to fall onto the road behind him.
The van then accelerates, leaving the road partially blocked by piles of green waste.
Footage shows the tipper disposing of tonnes of branches and logs on Plume Street in Aston, Birmingham.
Security cameras from storage facilities company JH Kemp Ltd captured the skip in action at around 7.45pm on Saturday.
The van then accelerates, leaving the road partially blocked by piles of green waste.
However, if the driver had looked up while fleeing the scene, he would have seen a sign for a recycling facility around the corner.
One road worker said: “It’s so brazen to pull up in a crappy car and throw huge felled trees all over the road.”
‘I’ve heard of a few fly tipping incidents around here, so it probably won’t be the last time.
“The irritating thing is that there is a recycling center around the corner, so it’s not like they couldn’t get rid of everything legally.”
Over the last financial year, more than one million incidents of air tipping have been reported and local authorities issued almost 70,000 fixed penalty notices and 1,681 further prosecutions.
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics earlier this year show that 60 per cent of aerial dumping involved household waste and 40 per cent of reported waste was dumped on roadsides or pavements.
Local authorities are estimated to spend around £60 million a year on waste clearance, while around £785,000 in fines were imposed during 2022/23, up from £837,000 the previous year.
Figures show around four per cent of incidents – 42,000 in 2022/23 involve dump trucks, which cost local authorities £13.2m to clean up.
According to the latest data, the London Borough of Brent recorded the highest number of total incidents in the country, with 34,830 reports of tipping, followed by Camden, Westminster, Hackney and Hounslow.
