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.[reply]

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

'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)[reply]

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.wiki.x.io/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)[reply]