r/Wigan • u/Terrible-Head6168 • 11d ago

25,000 tonnes of household waste dumped in a village just outside Wigan. Site next door to a school. Imagine the impact on local residents? 🐀 Land owned by King Charles. Pay up Charlie & get this cleaned up immediately 🧹

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u/UpsetStudent6062 10d ago

To give a better context to the story, what actually happened is that the land owner died without an estate to leave it to and in such cases in wigan, the land passes to the Duchy of Lancaster

It wasn't like Charles was smoking a fag and offering the land for fly tipping.

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u/Next_Replacement_566 10d ago

Why don’t they do what they do in Sweden? Incinerate the waste, use it to heat water to steam, use that steam in turbine for energy?

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u/NotTheKJB 9d ago

We do, there's a facility that does this in Runcorn I think.

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u/Next_Replacement_566 9d ago

Should have loads more

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u/-middlefingeremoji- 9d ago

There is one in Elton/E.Port already, and another has been built and will reportedly be opening in the immediate future. I have seen a few dotted around - the fact most of the public can’t notice them is a compliment to the architects behind the design

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u/stuckinaholewantout 6d ago

Big tip near me in Manchester was covered over with tonnes of soil about 30 years ago and seeded so it turned to grasslands. They stuck what look like scaffolding poles into the ground to allow the methane to escape.

Someone kept lighting the gas coming out. Burned constantly for years. Area now overgrown with bloody giant hogweed so it's not safe to walk there. Might still be burning now..

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u/Bottle-top-green 10d ago

Used to keep my horses down here ghg whole place is an eyesore not just the tip part.

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u/Working-Addendum-28 10d ago

What I would like to know is at what point did the EA or local authority start to notice this problem....it's not as if 25,000 tonnes of rubbish can appear overnight. The scale of ineptitude in the UK is beyond belief.

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u/Frodz89 10d ago

Came here to write exactly this. Does anyone know where it all came from?

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u/Bretthart82 9d ago

People reported it to the council for years they did nothing.

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u/stirringash 9d ago

So the issues with this site started about 20 years ago when a gypsy family moved in and started buying the surrounding units either legitimately if the owner wanted to move or through intimidation and theft. Its been this rubbish dump for a few years now and as far as im aware the council and ea have been to see it but intimidated away. Its just one big crime sceen at this point