{"id":207311,"date":"2025-10-17T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207311\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:43:08","slug":"newport-fly-tipping-shops-face-100-fee-over-trolley-dumping-scourge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207311\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport fly-tipping: Shops face \u00a3100 fee over trolley dumping &#8216;scourge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These people are bringing [trolleys] out here, it&#8217;s not nice, they are defacing the place,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charging supermarkets for dumped trolleys, &#8220;is a good idea&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newport council said it would look to collaborate with Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to recover trolleys from rivers, as it &#8220;cannot assume responsibility for recovery operations&#8221; due to a lack of resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The environmental watchdog said responsibility for removing waste from rivers fell to the landowner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A NRW spokesperson said: &#8220;We are working hard to try to keep waste out of rivers to the best of our ability, but there is no simple solution to this societal challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need a collaborative and catchment-wide solution, with a mixture of better waste management, enforcement and education &#8211; not something any one organisation can do alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;These people are bringing [trolleys] out here, it&#8217;s not nice, they are defacing the place,&#8221; he said. Charging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-207311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}