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Dumpers fly-tip 30 bags of rubbish at Black Isle beauty spot; anger as essential workers at Forestry and Land Scotland are forced to divert efforts away from coronavirus fight to tackle mess


By Louise Glen

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Fly tipping at the Clootie Well near Munlochy.
Fly tipping at the Clootie Well near Munlochy.

Residents have condemned fly-tippers who offloaded more than 30 bags of rubbish containing food and pet waste at a Black Isle beauty spot.

The black bags full of rotting food and animal waste were dumped at the Clootie Well, near Munlochy – and will mean essential workers have to be derailed from coronovirus efforts to collect and dispose of them.

It is the second time that huge volumes of rotting food have been dumped in the area of the well in a matter of days.

One bag contained rotting pet food while others contained huge volumes of food. It was dumped in full view of the road at the Clootie Well car park on the A832.

Knockbain Community Council chairman, John Stott, said the amount of waste was "astonishing", and warned there should be no further repeat of the incident.

Locator - Clootie Well..Fly tipping.
Locator - Clootie Well..Fly tipping.

Mr Stott said: "The bags of rubbish containing food and is quite astonishing particularly given we are in a time where food supplies are low because of coronavirus. There was even pet food waste."

Last year the community council did a major clean up of the Clootie Well area.

"Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) who manage the land have diverted essential workers to remove half of the bags, and the council will pick the rest of them up later this week.

"What astounds me is that anyone could do this at a time when we are all needing to pull together to deal with the coronavirus effort."

He continued: "Last week there were black bags dumped in the Fortrose area that were full of gammon steaks. Someone who obviously had bulk purchased them and did not know they would go out of date. It bewilders me."

Paul Hibberd, visitor services manager for FLS, said the fly-tipping means workers will have to stop essential coronavirus-related work to deal with it.

He said: “We have a team engaged in essential harvesting work in the area.

“We are having to ask them to stop this essential work to deal with this incidence of fly-tipping and remove the waste.

“Dumping rubbish is criminal and highly anti-social at the best of times but to find it happening as everyone pulls together to tackle the Covid-19 crisis is disappointing and frustrating to say the least.

“If anyone sees someone fly tipping from a vehicle in one of our car parks, or anywhere else, we would encourage them to call the Dumb Dumpers hotline on 0845 2 30 40 90 or police on 101.”

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