Pictured: Shocking rubbish mountain piled high in street
Tyres, mattresses, sofas, fridges - this is the shocking mountain of rubbish dumped in a Black Country street by thoughtless fly-tippers.
A community group filled six truck-loads of trash in just two hours when they tackled the rubbish mound off Jackson Street, Lye.
Members of Tidy Stourbridge worked with the council to clear three sofas, more than 20 tyres, roofing materials, stacks of wood, plastic tubs and general waste. There was even a drinks vending machine left at the site between High Street and the Lye By-Pass.
Tidy Stourbridge member, Roger Kendrick, said the smell from the rubbish was 'shocking' and described it as one of the worst examples of fly-tipping he had ever seen.
He added that Jackson Street had become a hotspot for fly-tippers.
"What they have realised is this is an ideal spot where they can drive onto the wasteland and just drop stuff off without anyone seeing them," he explained.
"If people are inclined to fly-tip this is probably the best spot in the whole borough.
"We all said that we'd not seen anything as bad as this load of rubbish before and most of it must have been fly-tipping.
"There was everything there. There was even a Pepsi drinks machine but there were no drinks inside.
"There was at least 20 tyres among all other sorts of things. We picked up about 80 bags of rubbish as the team from Tidy Stourbridge. That is without including what was collected by the council's staff."
Problems at the site were first spotted by Tidy Stourbridge members around three months ago but since then more rubbish had been left.
The clean-up was carried out on Wednesday evening as a joint operation between the community group and Dudley Council's Street Cleaning Department
A total of 15 volunteers collected more than 80 bags filled with waste from the site in addition to that collected by council staff.
Deputy Mayor Councillor Mohammed Hanif, Councillor Christine Perks and the council's chief executive, Sarah Norman, helped clear the area.
Mr Kendrick, added: "This was a really good exercise. When we first got there the rubbish was a real mountain.
"Dave Wesson from the council and Sarah Norman both said they had never seen anything like it.
"Sarah really got her hands dirty and got involved which was great. We have a good relationship with Dudley Council."
