Concerns over illegally dumping waste [Video]

Fed up with garbage being dumped along roadways and in vacant lots, one south London resident is fighting back with his cell phone.

On Thursday, Allan Tipping was driving along Dingman Drive when he spotted a woman tossing trash bags in his neighbourhood.

“She was throwing garbage out of the vehicle onto the ground,” Tipping recounted. “I caught up to her around the front of the Value Village (on Wellington Road). When I told her to go pick up her garbage her response was, ‘Yeah, yeah, I will.’”

He pulled out his cell phone and snapped pictures of the driver and her vehicle’s license plate before she drove off— leaving the five garbage bags of trash in the snow.

Frustrated about the persistent problem in the Brockley-Shaver neighbourhood near London’s W12A Landfill, Tipping sent pictures and information to municipal by-law enforcement at city hall.

Orest Katolyk, director of Municipal Compliance, …