The idea of this site was born when a group of Anglers, Divers, Conservationists and Local Councillors, met to discuss the obscenity of the dumping of waste in Whitsand Bay. Our collective aim is to build on the massive support from the general public that we received during the recent Whitsand Bay No Take Zone (NTZ) debacle in order to raise public awareness of the dumping and exert pressure to have it stopped.

Hopefully, with the support of everyone who reads this, and cares for the future of their Children and Grandchildren, such a storm of protest and paper will arrive in Whitehall it will force those in power to act responsibly.
 

There must be no alternative but to take action and close the dump site. That in practical reality is all that is required: no massive clean up of the seabed, no financially prohibitive dredging operations to remove the silt and rubbish. Just stopping the dumping would be enough for a recovery to take place. It wouldn’t be immediate, it would take time, but nature would gradually do the rest. Within months of the dumping being stopped, micro-organisms will have begun to re-colonise the seabed and begin the process of recovery to the wonderful ecosystem that existed before.

picture by Henry Gilbey

The Sunday Telegraph recently published a letter from the Evironment Minister Elliott Morley, attacking fly-tipping as an "anti-social and potentially damaging crime". He was not prepared, he said, to tolerate the criminals responsible for it any longer. To quote the words of the Sunday Telegraph "strange then, he himself authorises perhaps the most reckless example of fly-tipping anywhere in Britain".