00:00A North London businessman has been fined more than £50,000 after his employees were caught on camera dumping leftover meat and fish on a street and a nearby flat roof.
00:16Ali Jamil Mohamed, who runs Ranya Food Centre and Ranya Fresh Fish Ltd on Kilburn High Road, pleaded guilty on behalf of both companies at a recent court hearing.
00:30The case came to light after the council installed cameras, captured images of the fly tipping, which the court heard showed blatant breaches of environmental standards.
00:42Brent council said it had received 18 separate complaints about the businesses and that warnings had been repeatedly ignored.
00:51Now, officials describe the dumping as a deliberate and coordinated operation, with enforcement officers calling the footage disgraceful.
01:02So is fly tipping really that bad across the capital? I asked Londoners what they think should be done.
01:09Yeah, actually, I think it depends on the specific area, because especially when you go to Lewish and Peckham, it's just a mess.
01:16You just see liquid, food, trash on the floor.
01:20But when you go to different places like West London or even like Canary Wolf, you see the ground is a bit more cleaner.
01:27So I think it has something to do with Lewisham council, the different councils.
01:30They need to manage that better.
01:32I think the streets generally clean, but I do see incidences of fly tipping, you know, sometimes in the local parks, you know, in a kind of hidden area of the park where it can be for quite a while.
01:45So, I mean, it's definitely a problem.
01:47I think that if you're fly tipping on someone else's land, and they have to foot the bill of clearing up after you, then I think you should be, by law, it shouldn't be allowed.
02:01That's what I think, it shouldn't be allowed, because it's unfair, isn't it?
02:05Yeah, I guess fines would be the way.
02:08I mean, the only worry would be that the kind of people who, I guess, are doing fly tipping are not necessarily going to pay anyway.
02:15You know, it's a bit of an underground business, as it were.
02:20I mean, look at it.
02:22It's not dirty, a bit morbid.
02:28The colour of the pavement's grey.
02:31We have bright red or bright yellow pavements.
02:34You do see a lot of stuff dumped on the road regularly.
02:38I will say, you know, because I've been quite negative, just in London's defence, if you look at other European capitals, London actually is relatively clean in that respect.
02:49So I will give them credit for that.
02:50But again, if there's fly tipping, then there's an issue.
02:54So to come back to focus on London, if there's fly tipping, then there's an issue.
