| 单词 |
fly-tipping |
| 释义 |
fly-tipping, vbl. n.|ˈflaɪˌtɪpɪŋ|
[f. fly n.2 (as in sense 2 a) + tipping vbl. n.2]
The unauthorized dumping of building rubble, household refuse, or other waste, esp. while in the process of transporting it.
1968Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXVI. 761 Every local authority should be prepared to act as intermediary between the industrial waste contractor and potential clients... This is one way of avoiding fly tipping. 1970Disposal of Solid Toxic Wastes (Min. Housing & Local Govt.) viii. 29 There is no point in ignoring the possibility of fly tipping and it becomes more and more likely if more and more difficulties are put in the way of ‘reasonably safe and proper disposal’. 1983Church Times 14 Oct. 9/1 Its latest idea is to try and stop fly-tipping: that disgusting habit..of dumping..large and unsightly rubbish in any odd corner of a nearby street. 1989Motor Transport 8 Feb. 1/1 Joan Ruddock, Labour's junior transport spokesman, has been given a date for the second reading of her private member's bill to curb fly tipping.
Hence (as a back-formation) ˈfly-tip v. trans., to dump (rubbish) by fly-tipping; also intr.; ˈfly-tipped ppl. a.; ˈfly-tipper n., one who disposes of waste in this way.
1985Managing Waste: 11th Rep. R. Comm. Environmental Pollution vi. 71 in Parl. Papers 1985–86 (Cmnd. 9675), The London-wide initiative on Fly Tipping (LIFT) Working Party..identified some 600,000 tonnes of fly tipped wastes in London... The LIFT..Report divides the people who fly tip into four categories... The organised criminal fly tipper operates to make money through illegal deposition of wastes. 1987Financial Times 24 Oct. p. xvi/7 Camden operates various nuisance criteria: travellers are asked not to damage property, not to cause health risks, not to fly tip nor cause undue noise. 1988Ibid. 30 June 8/7 The Government intends to act against companies that fly-tip rubbish on roads and waste land. 1990Green Mag. Apr. 86/1 If the litter is dumped by a fly tipper the council will prosecute the culprit for you. |
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