DEVON County Council has hit upon a very good way of encouraging fly tipping. Recently, I took two and a half small sacks of rubble and a washbasin to the Crowndale recycling centre and was charged £8 to tip them.

This is a lot for such a trivial amount of the easiest waste to dispose of and is the sort of fee many householders will be unwilling to pay when there is a convenient grass verge near them.

David Wright

Walkhampton