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Martin Montague, producer of the fly-tipping coverage application as well as web site ClearWaste.com, pointed out: “Farmers like him are actually afflicted along with fly-tipping as well as it costs all of them a lot of money to acquire it cleaned up.

Mr Johnston sent the clip to ClearWaste - an app that allows users to report fly-tipping and find licensed waste removal options. They shared it to their Facebook page with the caption: 'Farmer James Johnston caught fly-tippers in the act - and made them load it all back onto their truck.'

James Johnston captured a Facebook live recording of two males collecting their items from one of his fields and re-loading it back into their vehicle. "All this has been dumped in the gate of the field. It seems we now have to lock the gates every time we go through them." the angry farmer said in the video.

Mr Johnston sent the video to publish on ClearWaste, a free app to report fly-tipping and waste crime. Clearwaste posted the video on its Facebook page and it has had more than 200,000 views, 1,800 reactions and over 500 comments. Mike Little commented: “Brilliant. Well done Mr Farmer. Hope you stayed there till they took everything away.

A viral video shows the moment a Scottish farmer forced fly tippers to pick up their rubbish after dumping it on his land. James Johnston, who farms near Glasgow, filmed the two men picking up dumped wood from a field and re-loading it back into their van.

ClearWaste creator Martin Montague said: ‘We’ve seen a huge increase in reports of fly-tipping on our ClearWaste.com app and website since before lockdown – and it is often farmers who have to deal with it. ‘If fly-tippers blocks a gateway to a field with a pile of rubbish then the farmer obviously can’t get access their crops or livestock – and it costs them a fortune to clear it up.

The men reload the debris into a van which is not currently taxed, according to the government’s online tool One of the men says something unintelligible to which Mr Johnston replies: ‘Aye, every time I ever catch someone it’s the first time.’ Mr Johnston sent the clip to ClearWaste – an app that allows users to report fly-tipping and find licensed waste removal options

THIS is the moment a fly-tipper brazenly dumps an entire truck load of rubbish into the street in broad daylight. The footage shows the lorry tipping waste onto a residential street said to be in Croydon, London. As the clip begins, the truck is filmed from a neighbouring window as it deposits its detritus.

Outrage as ‘scumbag’ flytippers dump mountain of waste in country lane outside Lincolnshire village The huge pile of waste was found outside of Fulbeck near Sleaford on Tuesday

Fly-tipping in England surged by a staggering 300 per cent during lockdown, research by the universities of Southampton and Portsmouth showed, as tips kept their gates bolted for almost three months. Horrifying heaps of waste including car tyres, clothes, suitcases and doors were pictured scourging the countryside in Newport, Wales, in April this year.

This is the moment a furious landowner confronts an alleged fly-tipper and forces her to place the garbage again in her auto and acquire it absent. Social media footage demonstrates a girl buying up a desk and desk which was remaining by the facet of a highway in Enfield, north London, and placing it in her boot. An additional girl, who is recording the incident, accuses her of fly-tipping, which is unlawful and could consequence in a fantastic up to £50,000 or a yr in jail.

The coronavirus crisis has caused its own fly-tipping pandemic and rural areas have been hit particularly hard. In some places, The Countryside Alliance has reported a staggering 300 per cent increase. In London, there are boroughs where the problem has doubled while, nationally, the rise in fly-tipping is put at 76 per cent. The problem was triggered when most local authorities closed tips and recycling centres to allay social distancing concerns and allow council staff to focus on bin collections.