Fly-tipping spoiling National Park beauty spot (From Tivyside Advertiser)

Fly-tipping spoiling National Park beauty spot

2:48pm Wednesday 13th May 2009

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Chicken manure, horse blankets and a motorbike engine are among the items dumped at a beauty spot in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park recently.

National Park North Area Ranger Richard Vaughan is appealing for people to report anyone seen fly-tipping at Bwlch Gwynt, in the Preseli Hills, after a spate of incidents in the past month.

Richard explained: "In April a trailer load of bin bags containing chicken manure was dumped and we also found horse blankets and equipment as well as general rubbish.

"Then I couldn’t believe it last week when I found a Suzuki motorbike engine in the same spot. It does make me angry, because people must be going out of their way to dump stuff.

"I would plead with people to please, please take your rubbish home – or if it is impractical to dispose of at home then take it to one of the county’s Civic Amenity and Recycling Centres. Or think – could you actually sell whatever it is that you don’t want, or even recycle it locally via a website like Freecycle? What’s rubbish to one person might be highly valued by someone else.

"The vast majority of people are responsible so it is frustrating that just a few are deliberately spoiling this beautiful area of the National Park for everyone."

He added other items dumped in the past include sofas, computers, beds and car tyres.

There are six Civic Amenity and Recycling Centres in Pembrokeshire – on the Old Hakin Road at Winsel, Haverfordwest; Manorowen; St Davids; The Salterns in Tenby; Waterloo in Pembroke Dock and Hermon near Crymych. For more details visit www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk or call Pembrokeshire County Council on 01437 764551.

Anyone who sees rubbish being dumped at Bwlch Gwynt – or anywhere else in Pembrokeshire – should also call Pembrokeshire County Council on 01437 764551.

If you are caught fly-tipping there is a maximum penalty of £50,000 and/or five years’ imprisonment.

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