Searching for the tech angle... "the police had used a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera, and could see that some of the waste was indeed starting to decompose." - a less exciting but cheaper and more informative option could have been donning overalls and rubber boots and taking a spade and a probe thermometer across it
25M dollars? Buy a truck and something to load it. Pay one guy to spend the next few years moving it to a landfill as a full time job instead of contracting out the big cleanup.
So the real problem is fly tipping, I was trying to understand where is all this waste coming from. That's an enormous amount of trash to just be floating there. I've never considered myself that much of an environmentalist, but this is ridiculous and the solution may be significant fines and jail time.
And before there's any talk of unfair waste disposable taxes or costs, it cost money to run a landfill. Maybe it's expensive to the most person, but simply dumping on the side of the road is not an excuse nor solution.
This is no different than the massive piles of clothing in the desert of Chile, the rivers of Southeast Asia that have more trash than water, or any other place. We can burn it, bury it, recycle it, but if we don't do something it's going to eventually overwhelm and sicken everyone.
There are traffic management cameras literally everywhere in the UK. It's impossible to drive up to that spot without passing by hundreds of them. The fact that they didn't charge anyone speaks volumes about the level of incompetence.
Man, the missing quote marks around the word "revolting" made me think Sky was being disgustingly editorial with their titles.
Reminds me of Deus Ex, where the newsreader reports the news with a slant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpK9DusUy_I .. Although of course way too many TV "news"-readers in real life do it too.
For the unaware, the accepted standard is that using quote marks in titles make it fine, because it means the news article is quoting someone's words.
This should be treated with absolute top priority by the police, with the same level of forensic attention as a terrorist attack. If everybody associated with the crime, including those providing, accepting, storing, transporting and dumping the waste are found an prosecuted to the absolute extent of the law, it would be a very good precedent and deterrent against future repetitions.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 27.9 ms ] threadAnd before there's any talk of unfair waste disposable taxes or costs, it cost money to run a landfill. Maybe it's expensive to the most person, but simply dumping on the side of the road is not an excuse nor solution.
This is no different than the massive piles of clothing in the desert of Chile, the rivers of Southeast Asia that have more trash than water, or any other place. We can burn it, bury it, recycle it, but if we don't do something it's going to eventually overwhelm and sicken everyone.
Reminds me of Deus Ex, where the newsreader reports the news with a slant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpK9DusUy_I .. Although of course way too many TV "news"-readers in real life do it too.
For the unaware, the accepted standard is that using quote marks in titles make it fine, because it means the news article is quoting someone's words.
If it is organised crime then they must have rolled up with 4-5 trucks to dump this at once and the fact that its not been traced yet is insane