Anger over delayed removal of dumped cooking oil

THE search is on for whoever was responsible for fly-tipping eight drums of cooking oil outside a house in Lea Park, Thame.

Image for illustrative purposes only. These cans of cooking oil were for sale on ebay

The owner of the property fought for two weeks with BIFFA, who have the contract with South Oxfordshire District Council for the removal of waste in the district, to remove the drums of oil, but according to Thame Town Councillor, Nigel Champken Woods, BIFFA ‘were intransigent.’

The drums were finally taken away two weeks after they were dumped and the situation is ‘being looked into.’

Responding to Cllr Champken Woods’ question about BIFFA’s handling of the incident, posed at last Tuesday’s Thame Town Council meeting, District Cllr David Dodds, said: “They should have known better,” and added that the rule that anything dumped on a householders’ lawn or any other private property, such as a farm, is the responsibility of the owner to remove, is ‘extremely unfair’.