FLYTIPPING needs to be ‘as unacceptable as drink driving’ to tackle ongoing problems in Wombwell Woods.
That’s according to James Fleetwood, forest works supervisor for the Forestry Commission, who has worked in the woodland for the past eight years.
Flytipped garbage, from builders’ rubbish to household waste, has always been a problem.
But in the past two years, James said he has noticed a increase in the amount left behind in the woods - and often spends days picking up after other people’s dumped litter.
And it’s a local problem, with people often leaving waste they could easily dispose of at home at the side of the woodland roads, instead of travelling just a further two miles to the nearest recycling centre, on West Street, Worsbrough Bridge.
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