Talk:Illegal dumping

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It would be interesting if someone had some explanation for why the term is "fly-tipping" as it is not obvious (at least to me) why that term was coined.

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It may be called fly tipping as you are in effect, tipping the flies who swarm over the rubbish. This seems like a dictionary entry and not the stub of an encyclopedia entry.

71.141.225.173 18:00, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Steve P.

Ive always assumed it was because it was done "on the fly"The-Dixie-Flatline (talk) 19:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

The origin of the term is now explained in the article with the simple help of a dictionary. — O'Dea 17:42, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Where is the explanation from a dictionary? The link to the start-page of the OED is not helpful and the Etymology section is a joke. ♆ CUSH ♆ 10:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Clarification

So this is not really a less exhausting form of cow-tipping then? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.144.86.143 (talk) 13:54, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Merge

The articles are identical in their context and purpose. "dumping" describes the illegal act and "dump" the illegal result. They would be better of combined. -- Kku 13:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Proposed Additions/Edits

I will be editing/adding to this page as part of a WikiEd course I am taking. I plan to elaborate on the effects of illegal dumping and write sections on illegal dumping laws/cases in Japan and the United States. I also plan to create a section regarding how illegal dumping can be combated.

Bibliography Here are some preliminary sources I will be using:

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Indian Lands Open Dump Cleanup Act of 1994 Report (to Accompany S. 720). (1994). Print.

Heyes, Anthony. "Implementing environmental regulation: enforcement and compliance." Journal of regulatory economics 17.2 (2000): 107-129.

Ichinose, Daisuke, and Masashi Yamamoto. "On the relationship between the provision of waste management service and illegal dumping." Resource and energy economics33.1 (2011): 79-93.

Kaushal, Akanksha, and M. P. Sharma. "Methane Emission from Panki Open Dump Site of Kanpur, India." Procedia Environmental Sciences 35 (2016): 337-347.

Pellow, David N. "The politics of illegal dumping: An environmental justice framework." Qualitative Sociology 27.4 (2004): 511-525.

Persechino, G., et al. "IDES project: an advanced tool to investigate illegal dumping." WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 173 (2013): 603-614.

Tasaki, Tomohiro, et al. "A GIS-based zoning of illegal dumping potential for efficient surveillance." Waste Management 27.2 (2007): 256-267. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nuniw18 (talk • contribs) 19:46, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Request for comments- additions to article

Hi everyone! I am about to add some sections to this article. Your feedback would be very much appreciated! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nuniw18 (talk • contribs) 01:47, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

'Illegal dumping'

Cant we just change the article to simpky refer to fly tipping? Illegal dumping sounds ridiculous. Thats a description and not a name. 2A00:23C7:5AD0:8F01:B5F:1578:6B3F:EC5B (talk) 02:32, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Spelling consistency

As usual, a simple puzzle absorbed far more time than I expected.

On 2024 April 8, I created a section for US information, in the interest of globalisation. I noted discrepancies in spelling and looked at the article's history:

• IP user 143.158.254.228 created the article as Fly-tipping in 2005, calling the word British slang. (It was in print in 1947 but probably in use earlier.)
• In 2015 Cobaltcigs renamed the article to the "more dialect neutral" Illegal dumping. At that time the only subsection was for the UK and UK spelling was used.
• Nuniw18 contributed more than 60% of the content in 2018, adding many sections and specific mention of Italy, China, UK. The general narrative sections rely primarily on US sources (refs 7-21) especially the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Nuniw18 also introduced the US words tire, centers, trash, and -ize verb endings.
• On 2019 October 3, Socalilover changed most of the spelling to American, although there was no US section at the time (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Illegal_dumping&diff=919451329&diffonly=1)
• Some time in 2020 or later, someone changed kerbside to the American curbside, although the linked article is Kerbside collection.
• The images in the current version are identified as Commonwealth countries, with the exception of Ireland and Guam.

I wasn't able to identify any single revision as the "first non-stub version" but it seems clear the article was established with UK spelling. So it should have been retained. Consequently, I have returned spelling to UK style Humpster (talk) 05:27, 29 April 2024 (UTC)