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CCTV catches fly-tipper
A 48-year-old man from Gidea Park has been
convicted, after he was caught on camera fly-tipping on Little Gerpins Lane in
Upminster on Thursday 13 October 2013.
The area has seen a number of fly-tips in recent
years, so the Council regularly uses CCTV there, which captured Mehmet
Arnavut dumping around 10 black bags of building materials in an underused part
of the road.
Arnavut pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay a
fine of £500 with £430 costs and a £50 victim surcharge at Barkingside
Magistrates’ Court on Friday 12 December.
More
information here.
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Battery collections
If you live in a house in the Borough, you can now easily recycle your
used batteries by placing them in a small carrier or sandwich bag and putting
them out with your orange and black sacks.
The
collection
vehicles have a special compartment (pictured) for the batteries to be collected
in. Once the collection vehicle gets to the tipping site the batteries get
emptied into a larger storage box which, once full, is taken to a battery
re-processor so the batteries can be recycled.
More
information on which batteries can be recycled is available here.
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Expanding CCTV
Havering is the third largest London borough,
and one of the greenest, with a lot of rural land. So the Council has been
using CCTV in hard-to-reach areas with the hope of deterring would-be
fly-tippers and catching any offenders.
Councillor Robert Benham, Cabinet Member for
Environment, said: “We’re going to be expanding our reach with CCTV in rural
areas, and people should know that we’ll be watching.”
Fly-tipping carries a maximum penalty of
£50,000 and/or 12 months imprisonment when the case is heard in the
Magistrates' Court, or a five-year prison sentence and unlimited fine if the
case goes to the Crown Court.
You can also use this form to report details
of fly tip offenders, if you witness someone dumping the rubbish.
More
information available here.
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Help keep Havering clean
Using the online report forms is an easy way to help keep Havering clean as the form goes direct to the Council staff responsible for taking action on the issue you raise.
You can report the following online:
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