Council workers spent hours cleaning up tons of fly-tipped rubbish illegally dumped on a Cardiff estate. Mounds of rubbish, old furniture, planks of wood and plastic started to build up on a piece of green space between Williton Road and Torrington Road in Llanrumney about a week ago. You can read more about that here.
The community holds annual bonfires where residents are invited to dump some materials as fuel. But this year the group says people from outside Llanrumney have “seen an opportunity” to tip their own rubbish, and the piles grew wildly out of control. A team from Cardiff Council, accompanied by police, was sent out at 9am on Tuesday, November 1, to clean up the mess.
Cardiff Council's ward member for Llanrumney, Cllr Keith Jones, said: "Llanrumney residents will be relieved that the mountain of rubbish piled on public open space is finally being removed. Whilst some people began with the intention of creating a bonfire for Guy Fawkes night it is clear that this was soon abused by those just looking to fly tip their own rubbish."
