{"id":309179,"date":"2026-02-25T08:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309179\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:48:07","slug":"free-bulky-waste-collections-to-tackle-fly-tipping-in-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309179\/","title":{"rendered":"Free bulky waste collections to tackle fly-tipping in Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s dead easy come round here at night and dump stuff, even in the day,&#8221; explained Andy Beal, &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen people driving vans and they have dumped all their stuff out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He lives in one of Oxfordshire&#8217;s largest housing estates and said fly-tipping around the area has become a regular occurrence because &#8220;it&#8217;s dead easy&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beal, who lives in Blackbird Leys, Oxford, said fly-tipping was not an issue when he first moved to the area, but it had &#8220;got worse over the years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said local authority measures, including fees to have large waste collected from homes, were &#8220;putting barriers in front of people&#8221; who were trying to properly dispose of waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His comments come as Oxford City Council announce plans to crackdown on fly-tipping, including introducing free collection for bulky waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s dead easy come round here at night and dump stuff, even in the day,&#8221; explained Andy Beal,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-309179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}