Residents complain as rubbish heap towers above four-storey houses

Residents in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, live next to a tip where the rubbish has grown higher than their four-storey homes. The tip is run by Refuse Derived Fuel.

It has been told to scale down the mess by the Environment Agency but has so far failed to meet the deadlines. Residents living nearby have reported rat sightings and claim the massive mountain of trash is a health hazard, as well as an eyesore.



Sally Round said: 'It gets really dusty, really filthy, our windows get black and we wake up looking at a tip.' Builder David Round, 34, said the piles were blocking out the sunlight. 'I have to switch the lights on in my house at times when I shouldn’t because of the shadow of that massive pile,' he added.

RDF acknowledged the rubbish was causing a problem but said it needed more time to clear the backlog and was being 'held up by bureaucracy'. Refuse Derived Fuel Ltd shreds and dries combustible solid waste and turns it into fuel, reducing the amount going to landfill.

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