Levels of fly tipping are rising at a worrying rate for South Yorkshire residents, despite Rotherham Council\u2019s \u2018Get Rid Reyt\u2019 initiative.<\/p>\n
Items littered around Thorpe Hesley and Scholes have become an environmental health hazard to wildlife due to the amount of plastic dumped in woods and grass verges.<\/p>\n
Residents have been informed by David Lodge from Environmental Health services, about cameras that have now been installed on Grange Lane to try and catch offenders \u2018red-handed\u2019.<\/p>\n
Kaye France from Thorpe Hesley, said: \u201cBecause it\u2019s my main route to my Mother-in-law\u2019s in Shiregreen, I fill in those fly-tipping forms that are on the Rotherham fly-tipping site.”<\/p>\n
Mrs France, said: \u201cI probably do this on average, twice a week. Last year I think it started getting worse because of lockdown because the tips were closed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Levels of fly tipping are rising at a worrying rate for South Yorkshire residents, despite Rotherham Council\u2019s \u2018Get Rid Reyt\u2019 initiative. Items littered around Thorpe Hesley and Scholes have become an environmental health hazard to wildlife due to the amount of plastic dumped in woods and grass verges. Residents have been informed by David Lodge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":33818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18,21,16,86,103],"tags":[260,368,132,369],"class_list":["post-33799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-health","category-news","category-top-stories","category-top-story-4","category-watch","tag-environment","tag-fly-tipping","tag-rotherham","tag-rotherham-council","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"\n