{"id":483665,"date":"2026-03-19T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483665\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:06:08","slug":"peterborough-litter-picker-says-tip-rules-may-worsen-fly-tipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483665\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterborough litter picker says tip rules may worsen fly-tipping"},"content":{"rendered":"

“My wife was with me and she’s a very understanding person,” said Fishpool, who regularly tidies up lay-bys along the A47 and describes himself as a litter-picking “addict”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“As we drove out, she immediately said to me ‘I can understand now why people go and fly-tip items like this in laybys’.”<\/p>\n

Fishpool returned home with his car seats and put them in his shed, where they had been for up to 50 years.<\/p>\n

He decided not to go to a scrapyard as he believed they “don’t want people taking odd items down there, and certainly not upholstered items like a car seat”.<\/p>\n

Peterborough was found to have the highest number of fly-tipping incidents in the East of England<\/a> in 2023\/24, but this began to fall in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n

People using Fengate Household Recycling Centre have required an e-permit for their vehicle<\/a> since February 2025.<\/p>\n

The city council said it was to stop non-residents taking advantage of its services.<\/p>\n

Shabina Qayyum, the authority’s Labour leader, said the centre provided for waste “that comes from the everyday running of a household”.<\/p>\n

“This does not mean the site can accept unlimited quantities of any material a resident may have,” she added.<\/p>\n

Qayyum stressed the centre’s permit from the Environment Agency meant it could not accept non-household waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“My wife was with me and she’s a very understanding person,” said Fishpool, who regularly tidies up lay-bys…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-483665","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\/483665","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=483665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}