Environment Secretary Victoria Atkins calls the government’s new crackdown on the illegal dumping of litter “a mountain of rubbish”. Atkins expresses deep concern for the rural residents saying “fly tipping is the number one issue that people worry about”.
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00:00The policies that have been announced today, I'm afraid, amount to a mountain of rubbish
00:05and the residents of Birmingham, I imagine, are looking at this announcement with some disdain
00:11because, of course, they're having to live with the consequences of a Labour council who cannot control their rubbish properly.
00:17We know, particularly in rural areas, that flight up tipping is the number one criminal issue that people are worried about
00:25and, indeed, landowners, farmers in my constituency that have had rubbish ticked onto their fields,
00:31they are very angry that this government has denied us the opportunity to put our amendment forward.
00:39They've not agreed with our amendment that the polluter should pay.