Man ordered to pick up £3,254 bill after rubbish dumped in street
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: A man dumping waste in Cholmley Street. Picture by Hull City Council
By Simon Bristow
A man has been ordered to pay more than £3,200 after CCTV showed rubbish being fly-tipped from his car.
Hull City Council brought the case against Dariusz Dymek, 41, of Berberis Close, west Hull, after a man was caught on CCTV dumping boxes of rubbish from a car in Cholmley Street, off Boulevard, in February.
Enquiries by the Environmental Enforcement Team identified the vehicle’s registered keeper as Dymek, so enforcement officers served a legal notice requiring him to disclose who was in control of the vehicle on the day of the offence. He refused.
Under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, it is an offence to deposit waste, or knowingly cause or permit wastes to be deposited on any land without an environmental permit authorising the deposit.
If the registered keeper of a vehicle involved in fly-tipping fails to provide the required information on who was in control of the vehicle, they are treated as knowingly causing the waste to be deposited.
Beverley Magistrates Court found Dymek guilty of fly-tipping rubbish and failing to provide the required information to the council.
He was ordered to pay £3,254, comprising a fine, council costs and a victim surcharge.
The maximum penalty for fly-tipping is an unlimited fine plus clean-up costs.
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Councillor Julia Conner, portfolio holder for environment, said: “Fly-tipping makes our neighbourhoods look messy, is extremely harmful to the environment and causes unnecessary clean-up costs for the council.
“This successful prosecution shows that the council takes fly-tipping very seriously and will not hesitate to take action against those responsible.
“We encourage residents to report any instances of fly-tipping to help us to stamp out this selfish and anti-social behaviour.”
Anyone with information about people responsible for fly-tipping in Hull can report it via the city council’s website. People can also help identify fly-tippers caught on CCTV here.