19/09/2016 Inside Out West

Tonight, tracking down the flytippers

It actually makes me even more determined to look harder and wider

for that one piece of post with the names so we can

Mike Dilger looks at extreme solutions to littering.

How would you feel seeing your name on the Internet?

If my kids grow up later in life and they look on Google

and put my name in there, that is what will come up.

And a message from the Syrian family who have made their home

I'm very grateful for the people who have helped us and everything,

Parts of the British countryside are becoming a dumping

It is illegal and costs millions of pounds a year to clear up.

It does not take a genius to realise that does not belong here.

So we set about trying to catch a fly-tipper in act.

We set up our secret cameras in one of the West's

Prepare to be disgusted at what some people dump.

Fly-tipping is not a new problem but it's getting worse in the West,

It costs councils in England an estimated ?50 million a year

to clear up and private landowners a staggering ?150 million.

Money which comes out of their pockets.

Could be electrical goods, fridges, freezers,

Ian Exton runs Mount Farm in Gloucestershire.

He is at his wits end with fly-tipping every week.

We have to clear the rubbish out of the way, speak to the council

about that, wait for them to clear it, time that we lose.

And with farming we have to do the job on that day.

We might have something which can help him.

CCTV is proving successful in catching those responsible

for fly-tipping and as this is a prime spot, what better place

to install Inside Out's very own secret cameras?

Hopefully we can catch someone in the act.

Waste dumped here comes in all shapes and sizes.

You've found some pretty strange things left as well?

Probably the strangest thing or item that we found part

of in the countryside was right at this spot here.

One night the police came over to me and said the public

In the West fly-tipping has increased by a third

in the past three years, from just over 20,000 incidents

Hard evidence is needed for a prosecution and

Take this example from the Environment Agency.

A builder decided to dump and burn waste from his site

Bernard Molloy he was successfully prosecuted and is now banned

Pretty tricky considering he is a builder.

Back at Mount Farm in Gloucestershire,

I wonder how our hidden cameras are getting on.

The council putting up a sign to try and prevent fly-tippers.

A couple of days later, we catch something

Two men then appeared to unlock the tailgate.

The next morning, we get a call from Ian the farmer.

The worst case of fly-tipping his ever seen.

Just a few metres along from our cameras.

The council enforcement team are already here,

And believe me, you need a strong stomach for this.

Somebody has put this in the middle of the road

and they just think that's it, it's gone, it's out of their life,

It actually makes me even more determined to look harder and wider

for just that one piece of post or one delivery item that's got

the address on it with a name so we can take these people

to court, because this is just disgusting.

We have a bag of shoes, I think it's just a bag of shoes.

But you never know what could be found at the bottom.

They're looking for clues to find whoever dumped this waste

and getting their hands dirty is all part of the job.

The first bit of evidence, a summons for poaching.

Could this be linked to the fly-tippers?

This looks like we might have hit the jackpot.

We've pretty much got everything we need in one bag.

Finding a crucial bit of evidence like this can make a case,

but perhaps our footage our secret cameras recorded

You can clearly see the truck with the car door panel and safer.

We've caught the fly-tippers and they weren't deterred

At the beginning of last week, the council came out and put

the signs up to try and stop people from flight tipping and ironically,

a few days later, probably one of the worst cases of fly-tipping

we have had happens right next to the sign.

But I think people who do this sort of thing don't take

I think they take more notice of if they get prosecuted.

A few weeks later, the road has been cleared, but Lucy

We sent an invite to the individual asking them to come

in for an interview under caution which they didn't attend.

I'd like to really persevere with finding the individual and find

out what their take on it is, so we will do what we can to find

the individual and if they make it to court, they could be looking up

to ?50,000 worth of fines and up to six months in prison.

The council may now hire a special investigator to track down

But as I found, bringing offenders to justice is a difficult

Even when there is plenty of evidence.

And we'll keep you posted on how that case develops

Settling in, a Syrian family's story.

I miss my father, mother, brothers and my sister.

Tracking down people who foul up our countryside isn't easy.

How about trying to prevent them from doing it in the first place? We

asked Mike Dilger to investigate. As someone who's a lover

of the Great British outdoors, there's nothing I find more

depressing than this. It's disgusting, it's dangerous,

it's depressing and most I really want to find out

what will stop people doing it. For one cigarette I

face a fine of ?610. Or, is the answer

a Big Brother approach? First up I'm in Gloucestershire, at

a wildlife beauty spot I know well. Here in the Forest of Dean,

litter is a massive problem, with over 60 fly-tips reported

each and every month. And the crazy thing is it

could've been disposed of I know and love the beautiful Forest

of Dean, but it does tend to get spoiled by litter. How big a problem

is it here? We have spots where it is particularly bad and other areas,

it is overnight where people have been on Iraq creation spots in the

day and left their litter behind. Is there one piece of litter you load

more than any other? Think it is nappies. Animals eat the gel inside

and then it fills up their stomach and then they starve to death so it

is really nasty to find. The eyes are really important. You can make a

funny nose but the eyes are the thing.

To tackle the problem, these primary school children

are designing scary faces, to be made out of rubbish collected

What else have you drawn? I have drawn a moustache and a red nose.

Says this was on a tree looking down at you, do you think it would stop

people dropping litter? Yes. It would stop me dropping litter,

I'll tell you that much. The finished faces are hung

from trees in litter It's an unmistakably

gentle approach, devised by an environmental charity,

using something called nudging. Nudging is a behavioural concept

which suggests by using positive reinforcement and indirect

prompting, you can encourage people to change their behaviour.

For the communi-treees, the nudge is the eyes.

It makes people feel like they're being watched.

Where did you get this idea from. Came from Rotterdam. They put eyes

on the side of bus stops and they found the crime rate dropped

dramatically. I love what they are doing here. I just hope it works.

Appealing to our better nature seems like a good idea. But perhaps the

answer is something with a bit more clout.

In South Wales they've declared war on litter,

putting enforcement officers on the street armed with cameras.

And they have a website which posts photos of the people

In London, Natalie McDermoth was named and shamed.

She now faces a fine of more than ?600 for dropping a cigarette.

There were no litter bins around at the time. There was a green box next

to me. I put it out of there and then put it down. As I got into the

shop doors, this guy approached me and said, I am giving you a fine. I

started laughing and said, for what? He said, for dropping a cigarette.

He handed me an ?80 fine. I refused to pay it. A few months ago, I was

looking through my phone, I put my name in Google and my name came up.

I was in the London papers and I was taken to court. I was not aware of

this. I was also on the Hall of shame. How did you feel seeing your

name on the Internet? I was embarrassed, I was mortified. When

my kids grow up later in life and put my name in Google, that is what

will come up. Naming and shaming undoubtedly sends

a strong message, but it relies So what if there was an approach

which could catch the culprit even if the actual act

of littering hadn't been In Hong Kong they've imagined

a world where litter is DNA-tested and a photo-fit

of the suspect created. At King's College London they're

using a new technique called phenotyping - which can identify

particular elements of a person's After 27 hours of analysis can

they tell me who dropped the bottle? Well, we have got a full profile. It

is from a male. We have also looked at some visible characteristics.

This is what you can see on the screen. Across the top we have some

information about the person's hair colour. They are definitely not

blonde redhead. Probably more like Brown, dark brown. Down here, we

have the eye colour results which is definitely brown. Fascinating. What

about ethnicity? This craft shows different populations around the

world. This purple group are Europeans. And this red dot is where

a person sits who I think are very likely to be pale skinned. The

closest match is from Britain so it may be somebody from the UK. That is

astonishing. It is time to confess, it was me what dropped the bottle. I

did have dark brown hair before I lost it. I definitely have brown

eyes and I am British. I'm impressed by how much

information they can extract Could this be the way to go

after litter louts in the future? I think it is crazy if you are

talking about catching somebody who dropped litter. It is too expensive.

The result you get can't be used in a court of law. It would be precise

enough. It will mean the enforcement agencies will be targeting people,

the majority will be innocent. So after all that what is the best

way to tackle littering? Well, councils are dishing

out more fines and it's It taught me not to drop the

cigarette again. I don't smoke when I am out, if I go into town. I don't

want to constantly look over my shoulder, if there is not been

around, if somebody is there ready to give me ticket.

Meanwhile, in the Forest of Dean, volunteers say litter

I'm really heartened to see the effort that's

going into persuading people to kick this disgusting habit.

And irrespective of whether it's the carrot or the stick approach ?

So, if you don't want Mike on your case, put your rubbish in the bin.

Moving to a new country and coming to terms with a new way of life can

So far, 141 Syrian refugees have arrived here in the West under

And we've been getting to know one of these families.

In a town in Wiltshire, a new family have moved in.

This is their mum, Hala, back in Syria she worked in a hospital.

And this is their dad Mohammed who is a lorry driver.

The council said the flat was empty and unwanted by local families.

They left Syria in 2013, fleeing to Lebanon and then Jordan.

They were selected to be part of the British government

scheme to resettle 20,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees.

I lived with my husband, my brother-in-law, my mother-in-law.

And this is what they were fleeing from.

This recent footage is said to be of their hometown, Idlib,

My country was very bad because I could not walk,

No electricity or water, it is very hard to live.

The British government transported them to the UK.

Before the plane went down, I was crying.

I said to my husband, why did we come here

as we don't know anyone, we don't know anything.

When we arrived we found people from the council

Wiltshire Council was responsible for helping the refugees

adapt to their new life, finding places to live

where local schools and doctors surgeries had spare capacity.

It is good for the children, for their studying here,

Everything is hard in Syria nowadays.

My daughter goes to the nursery.

There are parks in Syria but here everything is more.

When you see the sea you feel relaxed I think!

We have lots of neighbours who smile.

"We wish you a nice life with us here in England."

One of these neighbours is Christina Schrager

Anwar, my son, every day when we go out he knocks the door

Lubana comes here and watches television.

She sits on the sofa and you wouldn't know she was there.

I tell them about how things are run like the bin problems,

Though they are making new friends, the family stay in close contact

We buy the ingredients from another town and I can cook

I tried to cook some English food like fish and the chips.

Now they have settled into life in Wiltshire,

both Mohammed and Hala want to find jobs.

For the moment, they rely on benefits.

I want to work and drive a lorry and be a taxi driver.

Our life is good these days but everyone would

First, we have to learn English very well.

First, you are going to read your paragraph and you will answer

questions like we do first thing every lesson.

I wish one day to be a translator here from English to Arabic.

Steven Cousins is one of many local volunteers helping

As a taxi driver, he is preparing them for their driving test.

To say thank you, they have invited him for lunch.

I was expecting to come for a sandwich or something

Mohammed's brother Youssef who has also been resettled in Wiltshire

was a lorry driver back in Syria as well.

Steven makes it clear that in the UK Mohammed will not be able

They want to use the skills they have and there is work

The family are off to Minehead beach.

This is the first time Anwar has ever seen the sea.

The resettlement programme meant the family avoided the difficult

journey some Syrian refugees make trying to reach safety in Europe.

I am very sorry for them because it is hard and it is

Of course, I miss my father, mother, brothers and my sister.

But the hardest thing here is to miss my family.

For us, for the children, everything, yes.

I'd like to come back but if it is safe in Syria.

Wiltshire Council has now provided homes to 41 Syrian refugees but many

other local authorities, including some in the West,

have so far failed to resettle any at all.

I am very grateful to English people.

I want to say thank you very much, to the Queen and the government

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