One of our officers gave a talk about TS at the Selfcare event today! Organised by the Self Care Management Team, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, the talks give great advice about looking after your mental & physical health. More details of the work they do -https://t.co/yDiAEjTJvd
🎶Rub a dub dub £400 fine for a plastic tub 🎶
(& 3 black bags of waste).
The habit of dumping waste by other peoples bins is still #flytipping & is costing @WalsallCouncil & other businesses 💰000's to clean up.
#goscote#walsall.
Use @WalsallBins to dispose of waste lawfully.
One of Trading Standard's roles is to advise businesses on keeping on the right side of the law. Officers out yesterday in Walsall town centre, with assistance from T2 @StMatthewsWMP, giving info to retailers about underage sales and how to avoid them. #teamwork#challenge25
Skin bleaching cream containing banned hydroquinone found in Walsall shop by trad stds officers & taken off sale. Using such cream can have serious side effects. Also removed from sale, other unlabelled cosmetics
& unlabelled food.
We tend to find grit is better at melting snow than bags of waste - another fly tipper traced and fined for #flytipping this time on Stephenson Avenue #Walsall roughly £130 per bag is pretty expensive compared to perhaps using a bin or the local tip!
Trading Standards officers out with T2 @StMatthewsWMP on joint visits for ASB week. Illegal cigs seized from 1 store by TS, offensive weapons seized by police. Male arrested. Illegal goods & crime go hand in hand. Tell us where - 0808 223 1133
Our #EnviroCrime initiative is cracking down on illegal dumping with a two-pronged attack: education and enforcement 💪 🚨
This approach, combined with increased surveillance, aims to change behaviour among perpetrators and reduce the incidence of illegal dumping in our borough.
During joint partnership work with @WalsallCouncil@SavvyShopper6 a number of shops were visited in the Blakenall and Bloxwich area. The visits resulted in a number of illegal vapes being seized and removed from sale. #asbawarenessweek@WalsallPolice
More details of the work we carried out last week with @StMatthewsWMP and @BWYK9 seizing illegal tobacco and vapes worth approx £400,000
https://t.co/oLCvRtFUw8
At Dudley Magistrate Court on 18 Sep, Midland Market of Walsall town centre was prosecuted for selling a nicotine vape to a 16-year-old volunteer on a trading standards exercise. The seller, Harry Singh, pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay £1447. More - https://t.co/BEC3Ae4E4b
At Dudley Magistrate Court on 18 Sep, Fone Masterz Ltd, Darlaston & employee Natalie Cumberbatch, were prosecuted for selling a vape to a 16-yr-old on a trading standards exercise. Cumberbatch was ordered to pay £26, & the company a total of £1025. More.. https://t.co/BEC3Ae4E4b
In #Walsall we've had 13 registrations recently for #chickens, #pigeons, #quail, #psittacines which is more than usual so the message is getting through but if you haven't registered yet please follow the link !
Would you pay £200 per black bag of refuse to have it disposed of? That is how much the fine was for this person #flytipping in #Willenhall.
Free & cheap options to dispose of your waste = https://t.co/jZ0dxpNo1p
@WalsallBins
Care about your community & KEEP #WALSALL CLEAN!
✅Fluorescent safety top
✅2 people to aid manual handling
✅Fixed penalty notice for #flytipping waste ££
Its £30 for @WalsallBins bulky collectin & free to dispose at the tip https://t.co/Ujft7XsBog.
Do people have money to burn & no civic pride.
KEEP #WALSALL clean.
😡 and another one - the nearest @WalsallBins tip is 3 miles away - your own bin is at the end of your drive!
At least the driver cooperated with the investigation - it needn't have come to this with more care & thought for the local #environment & #community!
KEEP WALSALL CLEAN!
Was this chap trying to make Suttons Drive look nicer by leaving plant pots and a garden statue on the verge or was he #flytipping?
We think fly tipping so called him in for interview and issued him a fine £££
KEEP #WALSALL CLEAN & show #respect for #localcommunities.