{"id":471143,"date":"2026-03-12T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471143\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:43:08","slug":"surrey-farmer-hits-out-at-fly-tipping-despite-police-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471143\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey farmer hits out at fly\u2011tipping despite police crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tinney, Surrey Police&#8217;s lead for rural crime, said waste crime ranged from rubbish being fly-tipped from a van to &#8220;multi-million pound organised crime groups dumping a 44-tonne lorry&#8217;s worth of waste on to the ground&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He describes fly tipping as a &#8220;really significant problem&#8221; in Surrey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not just the obvious in terms of the blight on the landscape, there is a real economic impact to this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The police superintendent said if illegal waste was dumped on land owned by farmers, who used it to grow crops and feed the population, it was then &#8220;on them&#8221; to clear the waste. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They have to pay and some of this could be hazardous material,&#8221; Tinney said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tinney, Surrey Police&#8217;s lead for rural crime, said waste crime ranged from rubbish being fly-tipped from a van&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-471143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471143","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=471143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}