{"id":407147,"date":"2026-02-04T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407147\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:56:07","slug":"herts-farmer-baulks-at-40k-cost-to-remove-dumped-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407147\/","title":{"rendered":"Herts farmer baulks at \u00a340K cost to remove dumped waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A farmer has spoken of his struggle to afford \u00a340,000 to remove toxic waste from his land that has been dumped there by fly-tippers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 200 tonnes of rubbish was left on the Hertfordshire field last summer, but the person who did it has not been caught.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The farmer, who wishes to remain anonymous, said he risked being prosecuted over the mess, which includes asbestos, household and medical waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency said it did everything possible to ensure that those who dumped waste paid for the cost of removing it, but it becomes the landowner&#8217;s responsibility if that is not possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A farmer has spoken of his struggle to afford \u00a340,000 to remove toxic waste from his land that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-407147","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\/407147","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=407147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}