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Driving in to work yesterday, spotted two large piles of fly tipped rubbish in the woods near Castle Rising, between King's Lynn and Sandringham: builders' waste, bin bags spilling across a layby... There are plans to further restrict the amount of rubbish we can dispose of, as part of the drive to encourage us to recycle. There are plans to charge us by weight of the rubbish we create. There was a recent flurry of stories about spies in bins Will fly tipping be something that will increase in the future ? Can it be stopped ? According to my Your Rubbish Your Choice magazine : somebody fly tips on average every hour of every day of the year (old joke coming up: they must be very busy !), and it costs Norfolk taxpayers over £500 000 in the last 12 months to clean up fly tipped rubbish. The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) is having a campaign against this, spearheaded by their president-elect Bill Bryson Picture by Flickr user JINGYE They are also campaigning ...